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Where does “malignans” come from?

malignans (Late Latin) comes from Latin maligno, 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.

malignans (Late Latin): maligning

Definitions

  1. maligning

Ancestry of “malignans”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinmalignoI malign; I act viciously; dative masculine...
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

Words derived from “malignans”

  • malignant
  • malignancy
  • premalignant
  • malignantly
  • nonmalignant
  • premalignancy
  • unmalignant
  • malignin
  • nonmalignancy
  • pseudomalignancy
  • non-malignant
  • promalignant
  • malignant
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