noun · femininefirst declension
malacia
malacia f (genitive malaciae)
Classical[maˈɫa.ki.a]Ecclesiastical[maˈlaː.t͡ʃi.a]
Meaning
- femininea calm at sea, dead calm
Ac iam conversis in eam partem navibus quo ventus ferebat, tanta subito malacia ac tranquillitas exstitit ut se ex loco movere non possent.
And they had headed all their vessels down the wind, when suddenly a calm so complete and absolute came on that they could not stir from the spot.c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 3.15Nihil habere, ad quod exciteris, ad quod te concites, cuius denuntiatione et incursu firmitatem animi tui temptes, sed in otio inconcusso iacere non est tranquillitas; malacia est.
If you have nothing to stir you up and rouse you to action, nothing which will test your resolution by its threats and hostilities; if you recline in unshaken comfort, it is not tranquillity; it is merely a flat calm.c. 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 67.14–15 - feminineloss of appetite, nausea
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | malacia | malaciae |
| genitive | malaciae | malaciārum |
| dative | malaciae | malaciīs |
| accusative | malaciam | malaciās |
| ablative | malaciā | malaciīs |
| vocative | malacia | malaciae |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- malacia et tranquillitas (B. G. 3. 15)
- a dead calm.
mălăcĭa, ae, f., = μαλακία,
I. a calm at sea, dead calm.
I. Lit.:
tanta subito malacia ac tranquillitas exstitit, ut se loco movere non possent, Caes. B. G. 3, 15, 3.—II. Transf., a total want of appetite, nausea (post-Aug.):
semen citreorum edendum praecipiunt in malacia praegnantibus, Plin. 23, 6, 56, § 105; so id. 23, 6, 57, § 107.— With stomachi: absinthium pellit malaciam stomachi, Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 48.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
malacia ae, f
, μαλακία, a calm at sea, Cs.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰκός (mălăkós) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ (mălăkĭ́ā)bor. Latin malacia Derived from Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ (mălăkĭ́ā, “softness”), from μᾰλᾰκός (mălăkós, “soft”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā). By surface analysis, malacus + -ia.