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Where does “mauvaiseté” come from?

mauvaiseté (French) comes from French mauvais, from Middle French maulvais, from Old French malvais, from Latin malifātius, from Latin fātum, from Latin fātus, from Latin for, from Proto-Italic fāōr — to speak, to be talking.

mauvaiseté (French): wickedness

Definitions

  1. wickedness

Ancestry of “mauvaiseté”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmauvaisbad; wrong, incorrect
2Middle Frenchmaulvaisbad
3Old Frenchmalvaisbad, evil
4Latinmalifātius—
5Latinfātum—
6Latinfātus—
7Latinfor"defective"; I speak, talk, say
8Proto-Italicfāōrspeak
9Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰéh₂tito speak, to be talking
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