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Where does “typhomalarial” come from?

typhomalarial (English) comes from English malarial, from English malaria, from Italian malaria, from Italian mal-, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον — small animal”; small animal.

typhomalarial (English): Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria

Ancestry of “typhomalarial”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmalarialOf, relating to, or infected by malaria; A person...
2EnglishmalariaA disease spread by mosquito, in which a...
3Italianmalariamalaria
4Italianmal-bad; badly
5Latinmalebadly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly
6Latinmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;...
7Ancient Greekμηλέα—
8Ancient Greekμῆλονapple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast
9Proto-Indo-European(s)meh₁l-small animal”; small animal
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