Where does “malinjità” come from?
malinjità (Maltese) comes from Italian malignità, from Latin malignitas, 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.
malinjità (Maltese): malignity
Definitions
- malignity
Ancestry of “malinjità”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | malignità | malice, spite, spitefulness |
| 2 | Latin | malignitas | spite, malice, malignity; stinginess,... |
| 3 | Latin | malignus | wicked, malicious; spiteful; malignant, malign |
| 4 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 5 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |