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Mal

stagnant water

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Where it lives

Curculio 5 · 8.11/10k
De Providentia 3 · 7.33/10k
De Patientia 3 · 6.63/10k
Poenulus 5 · 4.53/10k
Persa 3 · 3.82/10k
Asinaria 3 · 3.71/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 4 · 3.65/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Phormio 3 · 2.77/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
De Clementia 2 · 2.4/10k

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mal — de Vaan

mal 'stagnant water', OPr. mary, Lith. mares < *moria7 OCS morjey Ru. more [n.], morja [nom.pL] < *morio-> Go. mari-saihws, OIc. marr 'sea', OHG mari, men 'sea, lake'. Mare has resulted from unrounding of *mo- in open syllable. The adj. mariscus is considerd to be obscure, but may well be a derivative of mare. Note that *mor-ireferred to any large body of water, e.g. a lake. Lat. mari-timus may have been modelled … — [de Vaan, s.v. mal, p. 379]

In the wild

Malum Terence, Phormio 5.7
Mali Plautus, Bacchides 1.2
Male Plautus, Poenulus 4.2
Male Plautus, Truculentus 1.2
Male Cicero, De Officiis 2.89.p1
Male Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 10.82.2

6 of 109 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mal (scan p. 379; entry #1004). Root candidates: *morio-, *mo-, *wa-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mal (scan p. 404; entry #6434).

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