malifatius
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From malus (“bad”) fātum (“fate”) -ius; literally, “ill-fated”. Compare the name Bonifātius.
Adjective
[edit]malifātius (feminine malifātia, neuter malifātium); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
Usage notes
[edit]Attested in French from ca. 1050 (Vie de saint Alexis)[3] and Occitan from the 12th century (works of Bernart de Ventadorn).[4]
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | malifātius | malifātia | malifātium | malifātiī | malifātiae | malifātia | |
genitive | malifātiī | malifātiae | malifātiī | malifātiōrum | malifātiārum | malifātiōrum | |
dative | malifātiō | malifātiae | malifātiō | malifātiīs | |||
accusative | malifātium | malifātiam | malifātium | malifātiōs | malifātiās | malifātia | |
ablative | malifātiō | malifātiā | malifātiō | malifātiīs | |||
vocative | malifātie | malifātia | malifātium | malifātiī | malifātiae | malifātia |
Descendants
[edit](Shifted to the sense of 'bad' and 'evil'.)
- Franco-Provençal: môvés, môvé
- Mirandese: malbado
- Old French: malvais, malveis, mauvais
- Old Occitan: malvatz, malvat (analogical oblique, with subtraction of /s/), malvas, malvais, mauvais
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/37493
- ^ Haerle Philipp. 1955. Captivus, cattivo, chetif: Zur Einwirkung des Christentums auf die Terminologie der Moralbegriffe. Bern: Francke. Page 90.
- ^ “mauvais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “malifatius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 95