malus

Latin

adj
Definitions
  • unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad
  • unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch
  • bad, evil, wicked, mischievous
  • destructive, hurtful, noxious, evil
  • unkind, hostile, abusive
  • associated with bad luck, unlucky, unfavourable, unfortunate, adverse, evil
  • poor in condition or capacity, inept

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *malos derived from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late), *(s)mal-, *mel- (soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*mel-

Gloss

soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Property

Kanji

暗, 闇, 冥

Emoji
🍦 🔈️

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