malefactor

• malefactour (obsolete)

From Middle English malefactour, from Late Latin malefactor, from Latin malefaciō, from male (“evilly”) + factus (“made or done”), past participle of facio (“I make or do”).

• (US) enPR: măʹləfăk'tər, IPA^(key): /ˈmæləˌfæktɚ/

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malefactor (plural malefactors)

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

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

• benefactor

• maleficent

From malefaciō +‎ -tor, corresponding to male (“evilly”) + factor (“maker”). Used in Old Latin by Plautus and then more commonly in Late Latin.^[1]

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

malefactor m (genitive malefactōris); third declension

1. wrongdoer, evildoer, malefactor, villain

Third-declension noun.

• benefactor

• “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 and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• malefactor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.