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malum

fin. 1

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Mostellaria 2 · 2.08/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 2 · 2.04/10k
Pseudolus 2 · 1.81/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mălum — Lewis & Short

mălum, i, v. 1. malus,

I fin. 1.

2. mālum — Lewis & Short

mālum, i, n., = mh=lon (Doric ma= lon),

I an apple, i. e. any tree-fruit fleshy on the outside, and having a kernel within (opp. nux); hence, applied also to quinces, pomegranates, peaches, oranges, lemons, etc.

I In gen., Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 47; Col. 5, 10, 19; Verg. G. 2, 127 al.: malis orbiculatis pasci, Cael. ad Cic. Fam. 8, 15.—In a pun with mălum, a calamity, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 89; 91 al.—Prov.: ab ovo usque ad mala, i. e. from beginning to end (from the Roman custom to begin meals with eggs and end with fruit), Hor. S. 1, 3, 7.—Trop.: malum discordiae, an apple of discord, Just. 12, 15, 11.—

II Malum terrae, a plant (the Aristolochia), having four varieties, Plin. 25, 8, 54, § 95; Scrib. Comp. 202; also called malum terrenum, Veg. Vet. 4, 13.

In the wild

malave Cicero, De Partitione Oratoria 74
malaque Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3.24.18
malaque Plautus, Pseudolus 1.3
malave Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.87
malaque Tacitus, Annales 6.p57
malane Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.69

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. malum (scan p. 259; entry #4028).

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