Where does “malefactress” come from?
malefactress (English) comes from English malefactor, from Late Latin malefactor, from Latin malefaciō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
malefactress (English): A woman who violates the law or does evil; a...
Definitions
- A woman who violates the law or does evil; a...
Ancestry of “malefactress”, step by step
malefactress traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English malefactor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | malefactor | A criminal or felon; An evildoer |
| 2 | Late Latin | malefactor | wrongdoer, evildoer, malefactor |
| 3 | Latin | malefaciō | to do evil or harm |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |