mavult

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

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.16: si enim idem dicit, quod Hieronymus, qui censet summum bonum esse sine ulla molestia vivere, cur mavult dicere voluptatem quam vacuitatem doloris, ut ille facit, qui quid dicat intellegit? sin autem voluptatem put …

Martial, Epigrammata 8.66.13: Mavult sic numerare consulatus.

Tibullus, Elegiae 2.3.32: fabula sit mauult quam sine amore deus.

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.