Where does “malinformado” come from?
malinformado (Spanish) comes from Spanish informado, from Spanish informar, from Latin īnfōrmō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
malinformado (Spanish): misinformed
Definitions
- misinformed
Ancestry of “malinformado”, step by step
malinformado traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish informado
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | informado | informed, aware of |
| 2 | Spanish | informar | to inform; to find out |
| 3 | Latin | īnfōrmō | to form, mould, fashion, give shape to |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Spanish mal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | mal | Apocopic form of malo bad; evil; amiss, awry,... |
| 2 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 3 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |