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
- The quality of being premalignant
Ancestry of “premalignancy”, step by step
premalignancy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English malignancy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | malignancy | The state of being malignant or diseased; A... |
| 2 | English | malignant | Harmful, malevolent, injurious; Tending to... |
| 3 | Middle French | malignant | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | malignans | maligning |
| 5 | Latin | maligno | I malign; I act viciously; dative masculine... |
| 6 | Latin | malignus | wicked, malicious; spiteful; malignant, malign |
| 7 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 8 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |
via English pre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pre | Before; Precum, Cowper's fluid, pre-ejaculate; To... |
| 2 | Latin | prae | before; in front; in front of |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | prai | before; in front of |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | preh₂- | before, in front |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |