malevolens

== Latin == === Etymology === From male (“bad”) +‎ volēns (“wishing”). Literally "bad wishing". Compare benevolens. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [maˈɫɛ.wɔ.ɫẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [maˈlɛː.vo.lens] === Adjective === malevolēns (genitive malevolentis); third-declension one-termination adjective spiteful, malevolent disaffected, envious ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective. === References === “malevolens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “malevolens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “malevolens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.