Where does “mauvais” come from?
mauvais (French) comes from Middle French maulvais, from Old French malvais, from Latin malifātius, from Latin fātum, from Latin fātus, from Latin for, from Proto-Italic fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂ti — to speak, to be talking.
mauvais (French): bad; wrong, incorrect
Ancestry of “mauvais”, step by step
Words derived from “mauvais”