The corpus record — Latin

maledicus

maledicus · adj

foul-mouthed, abusive, scurrilous, slanderous

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Where it lives

Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mălĕdĭcus — Lewis & Short

mălĕdĭcus, a, um, adj.maledico,

I foul-mouthed, abusive, scurrilous, slanderous (class.): conviciator maledicus, Cic. Mur. 6, 13: homines, Auct. Her. 2, 8, 12: maledicum esse in aliquem, Quint. 4, 1, 10. —Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things: civitas, Cic. Fl. 28, 48: lingua, Val. Max. 8, 9, 2: sermo, id. 7, 2, 6.—Hence, adv.: mă-lĕdĭcē, in a slanderous manner, abusively, scurrilously: maledice contumelioseque dicere, Cic. Off. 1, 37, 134; so, maledice ac maligne loqui, Liv. 45, 39, 16.

In the wild

maledica Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.9e.2
maledicos Cicero, De Officiis 2.36.p1
maledicum Cicero, Philippicae 13.28
maledicorum Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.23.p3
maledica Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 77.9
maledica Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 127.3

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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