Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1066.male on page 1066
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male badly
male is a Latin Adverb that primarily means badly.
Definitions for male
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
badly
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adverb
- 1
Unpleasantly, distressingly, painfully. (b) ~ ese (w. dat.), to be distressed, feel ill, suffer; also ~fit, factum est. (c) ~ agitur mecum, it goes hard for me, I am hard done by. (d) ~ habere, to distress, worry, trouble. (e) ~ accipere, to give a rough handling to, treat roughly. (f) ~ ferre, to be vexed at, take ill. (g) ~ mereri, to deserve ill: see MEREO; ~ precari, to invoke evil: see PRECOR.
- 2
Wickedly, dishonestly, arongfully. (b) (w. wds. denoting sentiment or attitude). (c) ~ dicere (see MALEDICO), loqui (and sim., w. dat.), to speak ill of, abuse, insult; ~ audire, to be insulted or abused. (d) ~ facere, to act wickedly; (w. dat.) to do harm to, injure; (see MALEFACIO, also MALEFACTVM).
Sentences with male
Latin to English
Tyrannus cīvēs suōs ita male opprimēbat ut semper līberī esse vellent.Compare The tyrant used to oppress his citizens so badly that they always wished to be free.
Nōs pudet male fēcisse.Compare We are ashamed of having done poorly.
Utque viro furtiva Venus, sic grata puellae. Vir male dissimulat; tectius illa cupit.Compare And as stolen love is pleasant to a man, so it is also to a woman; the man dissembles badly; she conceals desire better.
De inimico non loquaris male sed cogites.Compare Don't speak ill of your enemy: plot it.
Ego deum genus esse semper dixi et dicam caelitum, sed eos non curare opinor quid agat humanum genus; nam si curent, bene bonis sit, male malis; quod nunc abest.Compare I have always said and I will go on saying, there is a race of gods in heaven, but I do not believe that they concern themselves with what the human race is doing; for if they did, good men would fare well, and bad men ill, which is not the case now.
Ab is male tracto, qui benefacio.Compare We are being treated badly by those whom we have benefited.
Partim inertia, partim male gerendus negotium, in vetus aes alienus vacillo.Compare Partly by inactivity, partly by managing their business badly, they stagger under a old of old debts.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 221.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1066.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "male (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 27, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/male.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 221.male on page 221
