malalt

Meaning

sick, ill

Concepts

sick

🤢

ill

🤢

unwell

ailing

patient

nasty

pathologic

pathological

peaked

poorly

seedy

sickly

sickness

sick person

sufferer

under the weather

unhealthy

diseased person

diseased

immoral

indisposed

morbid

Synonyms

malaltia

malalta

pacient

morbós

patològic

mòrbid

Translations

malade

🤢

doente

🤢

enfermo

🤢

malato

🤢

ammalato

🤢

krank

🤢

ziek

🤢

aeger

🤢

enfermo

🤢

αδιάθετος

aegrotus

🤢

naar

مرِيض

hasta

🤢

Pronounced as (IPA)

[məˈlal]

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: male habitus

In summary

Inherited from Old Catalan malate, malaute, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, run down”).
The sound changes approximately ran as follows: *[maˈlaβtu] > [maˈlau̯te] > [maˈlaɫt]. The last stage involves a reidentification of coda [u̯] as the phoneme /l/, heavily velarized in coda positions. Cf. Catalan colze < colde < *coude < *[ˈkoβ(e)do] < Latin cubitum.