adverb

male

male (comparative peius, superlative pessimē)

Classical[ˈma.ɫɛ]Ecclesiastical[ˈmaː.le]

№ 603 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

badly
Melius est bene morī quam male vīvere.It is better to die well than to live badly.1413, Jan Hus, Epistola ad Iohannem de Reinstein:
wrongly
cruelly, wickedly
not much; feebly

aeger, morbō labōrāns

male habēns — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 2

to treat badly

male habēre — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 25

he thinks wrong

male putat — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 4

badly

male — in Seneca, ch. VI

mălĕ, adv., v. 1. malus, 2.

I. fin.

From malus (“bad, wicked”).

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