Where does “pseudomalaria” come from?

pseudomalaria (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.

pseudomalaria (English): by Haemoproteus parasites

Definitions

  1. by Haemoproteus parasites

Ancestry of “pseudomalaria”, step by step

pseudomalaria traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English malaria

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

via English pseudo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpseudoAn intellectually pretentious person; a...
2Englishpseudo-False, not genuine, fake
3Ancient Greekψευδήςlying, false, untrue; deceived, beguiled
4Ancient Greek-ήςadjective suffix
5Proto-Indo-European-ēsPrimarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds
6Proto-Indo-European-ess
7Proto-Indo-European-osCreates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l-