Definition of "malum" [‖Ma•lum]

• An evil or wrongdoing. (noun)

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• "When Jerome translated the Hebrew description of Eden's "good and evil" fruit, he chose the Latin word malum, which, according to biblical archaeologist Schneir Levin, was intended to mean something similar to "malicious.""
• "The Latin word malum means both apple and evil, which may be the origin of the apple symbol."
• "Puschmann says: "The accounts given of intermittent fever, pneumonia, phthisis, psoriasis, lupus, which they called the malum mortuum, of ulcers on the sexual organs, among which it is easy to recognize chancre, and of the disturbances of the mental faculties, especially deserve mention.""