malalt

From Old Catalan malalte, variant of Old Catalan malaute, from Latin male + habitus, derived from male sē habēre (“to feel bad, be sick”).

The development -B'T- > -lt- occurred with [wt] as an intermediate, and can also be observed in colze, from Latin cubitum (“elbow”), and delme (“tithe”), from earlier *[ˈdɛdzemo] via a regular dz > w sound change, from Latin decimus (“tenth”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /məˈlalt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /məˈlal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /maˈlalt/

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• Rhymes: -alt

malalt (feminine malalta, masculine plural malalts, feminine plural malaltes)

1. sick, ill

• malaltia

• “malalt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “malalt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “malalt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023