Where does “malcompensate” come from?
malcompensate (English) comes from English compensate, from Latin compensatus, from Latin compēnsō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic kom, from Proto-Indo-European ḱóm — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
malcompensate (English): To compensate inappropriately
Definitions
- To compensate inappropriately
Ancestry of “malcompensate”, step by step
malcompensate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English compensate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | compensate | To do after happens; To pay or reward someone... |
| 2 | Latin | compensatus | |
| 3 | Latin | compēnsō | to balance, poise, weigh, offset (one thing against another) |
| 4 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 5 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 6 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 10 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 11 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 12 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 13 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 14 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via English mal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mal | illness, affliction; A longboard; Malleolus |
| 2 | French | mal | trouble, difficulty; pain; evil |
| 3 | Old French | mal | evilly; badly; poorly; evil |
| 4 | Latin | malleus | hammer, mallet; a disease of animals; the... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂-no- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂- | to grind, to crush |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | mel- | soft; tender; weak; to deceive; to rub |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | mey- | to strengthen; to bind; to change, exchange |