maleficium

Latin

Noun

maleficium n (genitive maleficiī); second declension

  1. crime, misdeed, offence
  2. injury, hurt, wrong
  3. fraud, deception

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative maleficium maleficia
Genitive maleficiī maleficiōrum
Dative maleficiō maleficiīs
Accusative maleficium maleficia
Ablative maleficiō maleficiīs
Vocative maleficium maleficia

Descendants

References
  • maleficium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • maleficium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • maleficium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • maleficium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to return evil for good: benefacta maleficiis pensare
    • to return good for evil: maleficia benefactis remunerari
    • to return good for evil: pro maleficiis beneficia reddere
    • his guilty conscience gives him no rest: conscientiae maleficiorum stimulant aliquem
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