The corpus record — Latin

malitiosus

malitiosus · adj

full of wickedness, wicked, knavish, crafty, malicious

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Where it lives

Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Miles Gloriosus 3 · 2.37/10k
De Officiis 5 · 1.48/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 1 · 0.75/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mălĭtĭōsus — Lewis & Short

mălĭtĭōsus, a, um, adj.malitia,

I full of wickedness, wicked, knavish, crafty, malicious.

I In gen. (class.): homo, Cic. Off. 3, 13, 57: malitiosissimus, Front. ad M. Caes. 4, 3.—Of things: juris interpretatio, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33.—

II As nom. prop.: Silva Malitiosa, a forest in the Sabine territory, Liv. 1, 30, 9; = u(/lh kakou=rgos, Dion. 3, 33. —Hence, adv.: mălĭtĭōsē, wickedly, knavishly, perfidiously: quicquam agi dolose, aut malitiose, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61: facere aliquid, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 132.—Comp.: rem mandatam malitiosius gerere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111.

In the wild

6 of 30 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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