malifatius

Latin

From malus (“bad”) +‎ fātum (“fate”) +‎ -ius; literally, “ill-fated”. Compare the name Bonifātius.

malifātius (feminine malifātia, neuter malifātium); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

unfortunate
- 4th c. CE, Epigraph from the Coemeterium Maius^[1] :
  VRBICE ORFANE / ET MALIFATIE / Q. VIX. ANN. XXII. / IN PACE
  For the orphaned and unfortunate Urbica, who died at the age of twenty-two. [May she rest] in peace.^[2]

Attested in French from ca. 1050 (Vie de saint Alexis)^[3] and Occitan from the 12th century (works of Bernart de Ventadorn).^[4]

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	malifātius	malifātia	malifātium	malifātiī	malifātiae	malifātia
genitive	malifātiī	malifātiae	malifātiī	malifātiōrum	malifātiārum	malifātiōrum
dative	malifātiō	malifātiae	malifātiō	malifātiīs
accusative	malifātium	malifātiam	malifātium	malifātiōs	malifātiās	malifātia
ablative	malifātiō	malifātiā	malifātiō	malifātiīs
vocative	malifātie	malifātia	malifātium	malifātiī	malifātiae	malifātia

(Shifted to the sense of 'bad' and 'evil'.)

^ https://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/37493
^ Haerle Philipp. 1955. Captivus, cattivo, chetif: Zur Einwirkung des Christentums auf die Terminologie der Moralbegriffe. Bern: Francke. Page 90.
^ “mauvais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “malifatius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 95