malefactorとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Late Latin malefactor, from Latin malefaciō, from male (“evilly”) + factus (“made または done”), past participle of facio (“I make または do”).

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: măʹləfăk'tər, IPA^(key): /ˈmæləˌfæktɚ/

名詞

malefactor (複数形 malefactors)

1. A criminal or felon.
2. An evildoer.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:criminal
• See also Thesaurus:villain

反意語

• benefactor

関連する語

• maleficent

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *maledfaktōr, related to malefactus (perfect passive participle of malefaciō), corresponding to male (“evilly”) + factus (“made または done”), past participle of facio (“I make または do”). Used in Old Latin by Plautus and then more commonly in Late Latin^[1].

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma.leˈfak.tor/, [mäɫ̪ɛˈfäkt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.leˈfak.tor/, [mäleˈfäkt̪or]

名詞

malefactor m (genitive malefactōris); third declension

1. wrongdoer, evildoer, malefactor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

反意語

• benefactor

派生した語

参照

• malefactor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malefactor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• malefactor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette