malefico

Borrowed from Latin maleficus.

• IPA^(key): /maˈlɛ.fi.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɛfiko
• Hyphenation: ma‧lè‧fi‧co

malefico (feminine malefica, masculine plural malefici, feminine plural malefiche)

1. evil, wicked
2. baleful, malign
3. dark (forces etc.)

• maleficamente

• famelico, fecalomi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maˈɫɛ.fɪ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈlɛː.fi.ko]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

maleficō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of maleficus

From maleficus + -ō.

maleficō (present infinitive maleficāre, perfect active maleficāvī, supine maleficātum); first conjugation

1. (Medieval Latin) to enchant, ensorcell, bewitch

   Synonym: incantō

   • 1529, Domingo de Soto, Summule fratris Dominici Soto Segobiensis ordinis predicatorum artium magistri‎^[1], page 307:

     Sed tunc ſequeretur illam fiam/deus eſt ergo hec fia non eſt bona/ non ſe maleficare, cuius oppoſitu omnes concedunt

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   • 1620, Henricus Institoris, Malleus Maleficarum‎^[2], page 37:

     An generatium potentiam ſeu actom Venereum impedire, & maleficare poſſent

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• Italian: maleficare
• Spanish: maleficar

• "maleficare", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)