Translation
malicious, spiteful; mischievous
Word origin
From Latin malitia ('spite, ill will'), reaching Esperanto through French malice. The Latin noun is itself built on malus, bad.
- Origin
- Latin, via French
- Root
- malitia
- English cognates
- malice, malicious
Examples
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The wicked king punished the village.
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She looked at me with spiteful eyes.
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His malicious plan did not succeed.
A trap worth naming: is not the prefix - glued to a root ica. It is one borrowed root, malic-, and there is no ica to reverse. The prefix would give you for the plain opposite of good. Reserve for deliberate ill will, and reach for it lightly when you only mean playful mischief.
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