malpli
Esperanto
Etymology
From mal- (“opposite of”) + pli (“more”). First attested in 1888.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmalpli/
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) - Rhymes: -alpli
- Syllabification: mal‧pli
- Hyphenation: mal‧pli
Adverb
malpli
- less
- Antonym: pli
- 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:
- Novelo estas skribita rakonto, malpli longa ol romano.
- A novella is a written story, shorter than a novel.
- (literally, “A novella is a written story, less long than a novel.”)
Related terms
References
- ^ Neves; Pabst (2022), “pli”, in Historia Vortaro de Esperanto, →ISBN, pages 672-673
Further reading
Grammatical texts
- Wennergren, Bertilo (1997-present), “14.3.15. Pli, plej”, in Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko[2], Malpli, malplej
- Kalocsay; Waringhien (1985), “Komparacio”, in Plena Analiza Gramatiko[3], →ISBN, page 92, line 1.a
Monolingual dictionaries
- “malpli”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
- “malpli”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
- Eichholz, Rüdiger (1988), “malpli”, in Esperanta Bildvortaro, →ISBN, page 595, line 20
- Bein, Kazimierz (1922), “pli”, in Vortaro de Esperanto[4], →OL, page 123
Multilingual dictionaries
- Wells, John C. (1992), “off”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary[5], →ISBN, page 319
- Benson, Peter J. (1995), “down”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary[6], →ISBN, page 173
- Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “pli”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary[7], →OL, pages 320-321