# malo
## English
### Etymology 1

Shortening of malolactic.

#### Noun

malo (uncountable)
* (informal) malolactic fermentation
** 2009, Joseph LaVilla, The Wine, Beer, and Spirits Handbook:Allowing a wine to undergo malo also protects it from bacterial contamination later.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

malo (plural malos)
* A Hawaiian loincloth.

### See also

* malo animo (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* AMLO, loma, loam, LMAO, mola, Loma, lmao, MOAL

## Asturian
### Adjective

malo
* neuter of malu

## Bariai
### Noun

malo
* cloth

### References

* Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

## Cebuano
### Alternative forms

* mawo

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ma‧lo

### Noun

malo
* (botany) the stamen

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish malo (“bad”).

### Adjective

malo
* bad; evil

## Chichewa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.ɽó/

### Noun

maló class 6
* place

#### Derived terms

* m'malo mwa

## Dyula
### Noun

malo
* (uncooked) rice
* (botany) rice plant, Oryza sativa

#### See also

* malobaga
* malobɔɔrɔ
* maloforo
* malogosilan
* malokala
* malokini
* malokisɛ
* malosɛnɛla
* kini
* ɲɛɲɛkini

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From mal- +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈmalo]
* Rhymes: -alo
* Hyphenation: mal‧o

### Noun

malo (accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)
* opposite

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* mal (masculine singular, before the noun)
* mao

### Etymology

From Latin malus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmalo/ [ˈma.lʊ]
* Rhymes: -alo
* Hyphenation: ma‧lo

### Adjective

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)
* bad
    Antonym: bo

#### Related terms

* mal

## Gothic
### Romanization

malō
* Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin malus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.lo/
* Rhymes: -alo
* Hyphenation: mà‧lo

### Adjective

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)
* (archaic) bad, evil, wicked
    Synonym: cattivo
    Antonym: buono
* (archaic) unfit, incompetent, inadequate

#### Usage notes

* In modern usage displaced by cattivo, but still used in some set phrases.

#### Derived terms

* malaffare
* malalingua
* malamente
* malasanità
* malaugurio
* malavita
* malcostume
* malessere
* malocchio

#### Related terms

* male
* malizia

### Anagrams

* Mola, almo, lamo, mola

## Ladino
### Etymology

From Old Spanish malo (“bad”).

### Adjective

malo
* bad
    Synonym: negro

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From magis +‎ volō, literally "I more greatly wish for".

#### Alternative forms

* māvolō (Old Latin)

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmaː.loː/, [ˈmäːɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]

#### Verb

mālō (present infinitive mālle, perfect active māluī); irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no imperative, no gerund
* to prefer, want more or instead
    Synonyms: antevertō, anteferō, praeoptō, praepōnō, praeferō

##### Descendants

* >? Old French: maloir

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of malus (“bad, evil”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈma.loː/, [ˈmäɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]

#### Adjective

malō
* masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of malus

### Etymology 3

Inflected form of mālus (“apple tree”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmaː.loː/, [ˈmäːɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]

#### Noun

mālō
* dative/ablative singular of mālus

### References

* “malo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “malo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "malo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* malo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere (ambiguous) to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid

## Middle English
### Noun

malo
* Alternative form of malwe

## Nafaanra
### Etymology

From areal word. Compare Dyula malo, Ewe mɔlu, Wolof malo.

### Noun

malo
* rice

## Samoan
### Noun

malo
* government

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mâlo/
* Hyphenation: ma‧lo

### Adverb

mȁlo (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ло) (+ genitive case)
* little, few, some
* slightly, somewhat, vaguely (to a small but perceptible degree)
* barely, hardly (anyone, anywhere)

### Adjective

malo
* neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mal

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmalɔ]

### Participle

malo
* neuter singular l-participle of mať

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /màːlɔ/
* Hyphenation: ma‧lo

### Adverb

málo (comparative mȁnj, superlative nȁjmȁnj)
* (countable) few
* (uncountable) little
* a little
* hardly (anyone, anywhere)

#### Related terms

* malobeseden
* malodušen
* malokdaj
* malokdo

### Further reading

* “malo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “malo”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin malus. Cognate with Ladino malo, Italian malo, Galician mao, Portuguese mau.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmalo/ [ˈma.lo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alo
* Syllabification: ma‧lo

### Adjective

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas, superlative malísimo or pésimo)
* bad
    Antonym: bueno
* evil, mean
    Antonym: bueno
* sick
    Antonyms: aliviado, mejorado

#### Declension

* Comparative: peor
* Superlatives: malísimo, pésimo

#### Derived terms

* a la mala
* a mala verdad
* a malas
* a malas penas
* alfil malo
* andar en malos pasos
* bola mala
* culo de mal asiento
* dar mala espina
* dar un mal paso
* de mal abrigo
* de mal aire
* de mal arte
* de mal en peor
* de mal grado
* de mal tono
* de mal vivir
* de mala digestión
* de mala muerte
* de mala vida
* de malas
* en hora mala
* en mala hora
* lo malo es que
* mal bicho
* mal genio
* mal humor
* mal trago
* mala acción
* mala conciencia
* mala fama
* mala fe
* mala gente
* mala hierba
* mala hostia
* mala idea
* mala leche
* mala mujer
* mala onda
* mala palabra
* mala pasada
* mala pata
* mala praxis
* mala racha
* mala sangre
* mala suerte
* mala voluntad
* malas artes
* malas lenguas
* malos tratos
* más malo que un dolor
* más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer
* poli bueno poli malo
* poner mala voz
* por la mala
* por las buenas o por las malas
* por las malas
* por las malas o por las buenas
* por malas
* soplan malos vientos
* tener mala cabeza
* ver con malos ojos

#### Related terms

* mal
* maleza
* malicia

#### Descendants

* Chavacano: malo
* Papiamentu: malu
* →⇒ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mölojti̱c

### Noun

malo m (plural malos, feminine mala, feminine plural malas)
* bad guy; baddie; bad boy; bad person

#### Derived terms

* más lento que el caballo del malo

### Further reading

* “malo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈma.lo]

### Verb

malo
* (impersonal) to not exist
    bira malo ― there is no rice/rice does not exist
    ngogu malo toma hito ― there is no food in the kitchen
* (impersonal) to not have
    ngori pipi malo ― I have no money (literally, “there is no money of mine”)
* (intransitive) to not exist
    nyao imalo toma hito ― there is no fish in the kitchen
    mina momalo toma fala ― she is not at home

#### Usage notes

This word negates the verb of existence sema. In impersonal usage (unlike sema), malo generally follows the object of the sentence; in intransitive usage, malo follows the subject and precedes the object. To negate the transitive usage of sema, the impersonal form of malo is used.

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Venda
### Numeral

malo
* eight

## Wolio
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm (“night, darkness”), most likely via borrowing from a Bungku–Tolaki language.

### Noun

malo
* night

### References

* Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris