English → Latin
“malignant” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mmalitiōsusmalicious, wicked; crafty; spitefulimprobusexcessive, immoderate, flagrant, impudent; greedy, wanton, ravenous; wicked, bad, villainous, immoral, impious, malicioumalignuswicked, malicious, stingy; spiteful; malignant, maligngravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hard
The English word malignant itself goes back to Latin malignō, through malignans.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
malignant
malus (bad; of things and persons): malitiosus, improbus (morally bad; of persons): malignus (evil or ill disposed; of persons; opposed to benignus): gravis (oppressive, violent; e.g., climate, caelum): a malignant disease, morbus anceps; valetudo gravis et periculosa.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for malignant?
- The usual Latin words for “malignant” are malus, malitiōsus, improbus; also malignus, gravis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.