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Where does “nonmalaria” come from?

nonmalaria (English) comes from English malaria, from Italian malaria, 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.

nonmalaria (English): Not of or pertaining to malaria

Definitions

  1. Not of or pertaining to malaria

Ancestry of “nonmalaria”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmalariaA disease spread by mosquito, in which a...
2Italianmalariamalaria
3Italianmal-bad; badly
4Latinmalebadly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly
5Latinmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;...
6Ancient Greekμηλέα—
7Ancient Greekμῆλονapple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast
8Proto-Indo-European(s)meh₁l-small animal”; small animal
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