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mali

mali is a Latin form of malus, meaning “bad, evil”. It is the genitive singular neuter adjective or nominative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular feminine noun or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 620 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.12.3: Cuius mali sors incidit Remis, quibus ille dies fungendi muneris obvenerat. Namque hi, cum repente hostium equites animadvertissent ac numero superiores paucitatem contempsissent, cupidius insecuti peditibus undique sunt circumdati.

Seneca the Younger, De Clementia 1.17.2: Mali medici est desperare, ne curet : idem in iis, quorum animus adfectus est, facere debebit is, cui tradita salu …

Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2.636: quin íncommodí plus malíque ilico ádsit, boní si optigít quid.

All forms of malus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.