Noun

1. The return of performance-related compensation originally payed by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

   The bank not only fired the loan originator when they recovered the last two years of his bonuses under the malus clause in his contract.

Etymology 1

Adjective

1. bad, evil, wicked, injurious

   Malus et nequam homo.

   A evil and wicked man.

   Malam opinionem habere de aliquo.

   To have a bad opinion of someone.

   Consuetudo mala.

   A bad habit.

2. destructive, mischievous, hurtful
3. ill looking, ugly, deformed
4. evil, unlucky

   Pessima puella.

   The unluckiest girl.

Inflection

• comparative: pēior (worse), superlative: pessimus (worst)

Noun

1. an apple tree

   Malus bifera.

   An apple tree bearing fruit biannually.

   Et steriles platani malos gessere valentes.

   And the fruitless plane trees have borne strong apple trees.

   Felices arbores putantur esse quercus vel malus.

   The fruitful trees are thought to be an oak or apple tree.

1. a mast of a ship

   Antemnas ad malos destinare.

   To fasten the sails to the masts.

   Malum erigi imperavit.

   He has ordered the mast to be erected.

   Attolli malos.

   The masts are lifted.

2. a standard or pole to which the awnings spread over the theater were attached
3. the beam in the middle of a winepress
4. the corner beams of a tower

   Turrium mali.

   Beams of the towers.