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malus

ADJ

bad

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malus#Latin
Attested in Horatius Ode 1.14
originates from: PIE *molo- 'bad' (molo- > malo > malus) through pie-to-lat
(source: de Vaan 2008:360)
Inflected forms
malo 'bad.abl.m.sg' (lat-adj-abl-sg-m) in Horatius Ode 1.14
Paradigms