malo

Shortening of malolactic.

malo (uncountable)

1. (informal) malolactic fermentation
   • 2009, Joseph LaVilla, The Wine, Beer, and Spirits Handbook:

     Allowing a wine to undergo malo also protects it from bacterial contamination later.

malo (plural malos)

1. A Hawaiian loincloth.

• malo animo (etymologically unrelated)

• AMLO, loma, loam, LMAO, mola, Loma, lmao, MOAL

malo

1. neuter of malu

malo

1. cloth

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

• mawo

• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

malo

1. (botany) the stamen

Inherited from Spanish malo (“bad”).

malo

1. bad; evil

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɽó/

maló class 6

1. place

• m'malo mwa

malo

1. (uncooked) rice
2. (botany) rice plant, Oryza sativa

• malobaga
• malobɔɔrɔ
• maloforo
• malogosilan
• malokala
• malokini
• malokisɛ
• malosɛnɛla
• kini
• ɲɛɲɛkini

From mal- +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalo/

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: ma‧lo
• Hyphenation: mal‧o

malo (accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)

1. opposite

• mal (masculine singular, before the noun)
• mao

From Latin malus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalo/ [ˈma.lʊ]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

1. bad

   Antonym: bo

malō

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉

From Proto-Polynesian *malo (“loin garment”), from Proto-Oceanic *malo (“barkcloth, loincloth”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maru (“loincloth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmɐ.lo]

malo

1. loincloth (traditionally worn by men)

• malo in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

Inherited from Latin malus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.lo/
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: mà‧lo

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)

1. (archaic, regional) bad, evil, wicked

   Synonym: cattivo

   Antonym: buono

2. (archaic, regional) unfit, incompetent, inadequate

• In modern usage mostly displaced by cattivo, but still used in some set phrases and local areas.

• Mola, almo, lamo, mola

From Old Spanish malo (“bad”).

malo

1. bad

   Synonym: negro

From magis +‎ volō, literally "I more greatly wish for".

• māvolō (Old Latin)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.lo]

mālō (present infinitive mālle, perfect active māluī); irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no imperative, no gerund

1. to prefer, want more or instead; to wish rather, choose rather

   Synonyms: antevertō, anteferō, praeoptō, praepōnō, praeferō

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 428–430:

     BYRRHIA: Ego illam vīdī: virginem fōrma bona, / meminī vidērī. Quō aequior sum Pamphilō, / sī sē illam in somnīs quam illum amplectī māluit.

     BYRRHIA: I saw her: [she was] a good-looking girl, as I recall. That’s why I’m more partial to Pamphilus, if he himself prefers [to be the one who] holds her in his sleep instead of that [other man].

• >? Old French: maloir

Inflected form of malus (“bad, evil”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.lo]

malō

1. masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of malus

Inflected form of mālus (“apple tree”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.lo]

mālō

1. dative/ablative singular of mālus

• “malo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “malo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "malo", 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)
• “malo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
    
  • (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
    

From areal word. Compare Dyula malo, Ewe mɔlu, Wolof malo, Hassaniya Arabic مارو (māṛu).

malo

1. rice

malo

1. government

• IPA^(key): /mâlo/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

mȁlo (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ло) [with genitive]

1. little, few, some
2. slightly, somewhat, vaguely (to a small but perceptible degree)
3. barely, hardly (anyone, anywhere)

malo (Cyrillic spelling мало)

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mal

• IPA^(key): /malɔ/, [ˈmalɔ]
• Rhymes: -alɔ
• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

malo

1. neuter singular l-participle of mať

• IPA^(key): /màːlɔ/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lo

málo (comparative mȁnj, superlative nȁjmȁnj)

1. (countable) few
2. (uncountable) little
3. a little
4. hardly (anyone, anywhere)

• “malo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “malo”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Inherited from Latin malus. Cognate with Ladino malo, Italian malo, Galician mao, Portuguese mau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalo/ [ˈma.lo]

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: ma‧lo

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas, superlative malísimo or pésimo)

1. bad

   Antonym: bueno

2. evil, mean

   Antonym: bueno

3. sick

   Antonyms: aliviado, mejorado

• Comparative: peor
• Superlatives: malísimo, pésimo

• Chavacano: malo
• Papiamentu: malu
• →⇒ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mölojti̱c

malo m (plural malos, feminine mala, feminine plural malas)

1. bad guy; baddie; bad boy; bad person

• “malo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈma.lo]

malo

1. (impersonal) to not exist

   bira malo ― there is no rice/rice does not exist

   ngogu malo toma hito ― there is no food in the kitchen

2. (impersonal) to not have

   ngori pipi malo ― I have no money (literally, “there is no money of mine”)

3. (intransitive) to not exist

   nyao imalo toma hito ― there is no fish in the kitchen

   mina momalo toma fala ― she is not at home

This word negates the verb of existence sema. In impersonal usage (unlike sema), malo generally follows the object of the sentence; in intransitive usage, malo follows the subject and precedes the object. To negate the transitive usage of sema, the impersonal form of malo is used.

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

malo

1. eight

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm (“night, darkness”), most likely via borrowing from a Bungku–Tolaki language.

malo

1. night

• Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987), Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris