The corpus record — Latin

maledictio

maledictio · f

an evil-speaking, reviling, abuse

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Where it lives

De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
De Scorpiace 2 · 2.51/10k
Adversus Marcionem 19 · 2.29/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 2 · 1.78/10k
De Pudicitia 2 · 1.49/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

mălĕdictĭo — Lewis & Short

mălĕdictĭo, ōnis, f.maledico,

I an evil-speaking, reviling, abuse (very rare): maledictio nihil habet propositi praeter contumeliam, Cic. Cael. 3, 6; Arn. 4, 147. —

II Esp., the act of cursing, a curse, malediction (freq. in eccl. Lat.): alicui benedictionem et maledictionem proponere, Vulg. Deut. 30, 19: bonum pro maledictione, id. 2 Reg. 16, 12; id. Jer. 24, 9.

In the wild

maledictio Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 6.p2
maledictiones Tertullian, De Scorpiace 2
maledictio Tertullian, De Testimionio Animae 6
maledictionis Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 10
maledictionis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.18
maledictio Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.15

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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