Where does “premalignancy” come from?

premalignancy (English) comes from English malignancy, from English malignant, from Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans, from Latin maligno, from Latin malignus, from Latin male, from Latin malus — small animal”; small animal.

premalignancy (English): The quality of being premalignant

Definitions

  1. The quality of being premalignant

Ancestry of “premalignancy”, step by step

premalignancy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English malignancy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmalignancyThe state of being malignant or diseased; A...
2EnglishmalignantHarmful, malevolent, injurious; Tending to...
3Middle Frenchmalignant
4Late Latinmalignansmaligning
5LatinmalignoI malign; I act viciously; dative masculine...
6Latinmalignuswicked, malicious; spiteful; malignant, malign
7Latinmalebadly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly
8Latinmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;...
9Ancient Greekμηλέαapple tree
10Ancient Greekμῆλονapple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast
11Proto-Indo-European(s)meh₁l-small animal”; small animal

via English pre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpreBefore; Precum, Cowper's fluid, pre-ejaculate; To...
2Latinpraebefore; in front; in front of
3Proto-Italicpraibefore; in front of
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpreh₂-before, in front
5Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l-