different between mals vs malus

English

Noun

mals

1. plural of mal

Anagrams

• AMLs, AMSL, LAMs, Lams, MASL, SAML, SLAM, alms, lams, masl, salm, slam

Catalan

Adjective

mals

1. masculine plural of mal

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ls

Adjective

mals (comparative malser, superlative meest mals or malst)

1. soft, succulent
2. (figuratively) forgiving, lenient, soft

Inflection

Anagrams

• smal

Latvian

Verb

mals

1. 3rd person singular future indicative form of malt
2. 3rd person plural future indicative form of malt

Swedish

Noun

mals

1. indefinite genitive singular of mal

Verb

mals

1. present tense passive of mala.

Anagrams

• alms, smal

English

Etymology 1

From Latin malus, by analogy with bonus (“additional compensation”). Doublet of mal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?.l?s/, /?m??.l?s/, /?mæ.l?s/

Noun

malus (plural maluses)

1. (business) The return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

2. (rare) A penalty or negative thing.

Usage notes

• May occur in financial services in connection with defaulted loans.
• Sometimes used in reference to games as a negative counterpart to "bonus".

Synonyms

• clawback

Coordinate terms

• disgorgement

Related terms

• mal
• malum

Etymology 2

From Latin m?lus and translingual Malus.

Noun

malus (plural maluses)

1. A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

Synonyms

• apple

Etymology 3

Noun

malus

1. plural of malu

Anagrams

• alums, lumas, mauls, musal

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *malos, related to Oscan mallom and mallud (“bad”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to deceive”), cognate with Lithuanian melas (“lie”) and the first element of Ancient Greek ????????? (blásph?mos, “jinx”). Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, it would then be a cognate with English small.

Originally associated with Ancient Greek ????? (mélas, “black, dark”), but support for this is waning. Also compare Avestan ????????????????????????????? (maⁱriia, “treacherous”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.lus/, [?mä???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.lus/, [?m??lus]

Adjective

malus (feminine mala, neuter malum, comparative p?ior, superlative pessimus, adverb male); first/second-declension adjective

2. unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad

3. unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch

4. bad, evil, wicked, mischievous

5. destructive, hurtful, noxious, evil

6. unkind, hostile, abusive

7. associated with bad luck, unlucky, unfavourable, unfortunate, adverse, evil

8. poor in condition or capacity, inept

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Synonyms

• improbus, n?quam, malignus, sceler?tus, perversus, pr?vus

Antonyms

• bonus, probus, r?ctus, integer, castus

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (m?léa) (See also Ancient Greek ????? (mâlon, “apple”), ????? (mêlon, “apple”)).

Alternative forms

• *m?lus (Vulgar Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma?.lus/, [?mä????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.lus/, [?m??lus]

Noun

m?lus f (genitive m?l?); second declension

2. an apple tree; specifically, a plant in the genus Malus in the family Rosaceae.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• m?lus gr?n?ta
• m?lus domestica

Related terms

• m?lum
• m?l?
• m?lopep?

Descendants

• Translingual: Malus
• Aromanian: mer
• Italian: melo
• Romanian: m?r
• ? English: malus

Etymology 3

By some referred to root mac-, from the Ancient Greek word ?????? (makrós, “long”) and Latin magnus (“long”); but perhaps the same word as m?lus (apple tree).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma?.lus/, [?mä????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.lus/, [?m??lus]

Noun

m?lus m (genitive m?l?); second declension

1. a mast of a ship

2. a standard or pole to which the awnings spread over the theater were attached
3. the beam in the middle of a winepress
4. the corner beams of a tower

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• malus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• malus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• malus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• malus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• malus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• malus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “malus” on page 1069 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)