malunt

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

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 3.23: Sunt enim omnes, qui in populum vitae necisque potestatem habent, tyranni, sed se Iovis optimi nomine malunt reges vocari. Cum autem certi propter divitias aut genus aut aliquas opes rem publicam tenent, est factio, se …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.13.3: Afranius in Consobrinis: Em istó parentum est vita vilis líberis, Ubi málunt metui, quám vereri se áb suis. Hic vereri ex ea parte dictum est quae est non usitatior.

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.