Where does “maliciel” come from?
maliciel (French) comes from French logiciel, from French -iel, from French -el, from Old French -el, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
maliciel (French): malware
Definitions
- malware
Ancestry of “maliciel”, step by step
maliciel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French logiciel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | logiciel | software; computer program, piece of software |
| 2 | French | -iel | Suffix used to form adjectives. Compare with... |
| 3 | French | -el | To make an adjectival form of a noun; -al |
| 4 | Old French | -el | Suffix that usually denotes a masculine noun |
| 5 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English malware
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | malware | Software which has been designed to operate in a... |
| 2 | English | mal | illness, affliction; A longboard; Malleolus |
| 3 | French | mal | trouble, difficulty; pain; evil |
| 4 | Old French | mal | evilly; badly; poorly; evil |
| 5 | Latin | malleus | hammer, mallet; a disease of animals; the... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂-no- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂- | to grind, to crush |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | mel- | soft; tender; weak; to deceive; to rub |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | mey- | to strengthen; to bind; to change, exchange |