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Significatio vocis malacia | Babel Free

Nomen femininum CEFR B1
[maˈɫa.ki.a]

Definitiones

  1. a calm at sea, dead calm
  2. loss of appetite, nausea

Aequivalentia

Bosanski bonaca
Deutsch Flaute
Español calma chicha
Français calme plat pétole
Gàidhlig fèath nan eun
Hrvatski bonaca
Latina bonacia
Српски bonaca

Exempla

“Ac iam conversis in eam partem navibus quo ventus ferebat, tanta subito malacia ac tranquillitas exstitit ut se ex loco movere non possent.”

And they had headed all their vessels down the wind, when suddenly a calm so complete and absolute came on that they could not stir from the spot.

Nihil habere, ad quod exciteris, ad quod te concites, cuius denuntiatione et incursu firmitatem animi tui temptes, sed in otio inconcusso iacere non est tranquillitas; malacia est.”

If you have nothing to stir you up and rouse you to action, nothing which will test your resolution by its threats and hostilities; if you recline in unshaken comfort, it is not tranquillity; it is merely a flat calm.

Gradus CEFR

B1
Medius
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