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Where does “malignement” come from?

malignement (French) comes from French Malin, from Latin malignus, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον, from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l- — small animal”; small animal.

malignement (French): malignantly

Definitions

  1. malignantly

Ancestry of “malignement”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchMalin—
2Latinmalignuswicked, malicious; spiteful; malignant, malign
3Latinmalebadly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly
4Latinmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;...
5Ancient Greekμηλέα—
6Ancient Greekμῆλονapple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast
7Proto-Indo-European(s)meh₁l-small animal”; small animal
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