Where does “Machiavelli” come from?

Machiavelli (English) comes from Italian mal-, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον, from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l- — small animal”; small animal.

Machiavelli (English): Someone like Niccolò Machiavelli: a Machiavellian...

Definitions

  1. Someone like Niccolò Machiavelli: a Machiavellian...

Ancestry of “Machiavelli”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmal-bad; badly
2Latinmalebadly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly
3Latinmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;...
4Ancient Greekμηλέαapple tree
5Ancient Greekμῆλονapple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast
6Proto-Indo-European(s)meh₁l-small animal”; small animal

Words derived from “Machiavelli”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l- →Every word from Ancient Greek μῆλον →Every word from Ancient Greek μηλέα →