Where does “maleficenza” come from?
maleficenza (Italian) comes from Italian maleficio, from Latin maleficium, from Latin maleficus, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον, from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l- — small animal”; small animal.
maleficenza (Italian): maleficence, wickedness, malignancy
Definitions
- maleficence, wickedness, malignancy
Ancestry of “maleficenza”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | maleficio | An evil spell, bane, curse |
| 2 | Latin | maleficium | crime, misdeed, offence, evil deed; injury, hurt,... |
| 3 | Latin | maleficus | wicked, vicious; criminal |
| 4 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 5 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |