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malint

malint is a Latin form of malo, meaning “prefer”. It is the 3rd person plural present active subjunctive.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.8.4: reliquasque civitates sollicitant, ut in ea libertate quam a maioribus acceperint permanere quam Romanorum servitutem perferre malint.

All forms of malo (conjugation 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.