The Latin root word mal means “bad” or “evil.” This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including malformed, maltreat, and malice.

6 нояб. 2018 г. · word-forming element of Latin origin meaning "bad, badly, ill, poorly, wrong, wrongly," from French mal (adv.), from Old French mal (adj., adv.) ...

3 июн. 2017 г. · Among these roots, 'Mal' stands out, particularly in its conveyance of negative connotations, stemming from the Latin 'male', meaning 'badly'.

Etymology. Inherited from Middle French mal-, from Old French mal-, from mal (“bad; badly”).

Mal- definition: a combining form meaning “bad,” “wrongful,” “ill,” occurring originally in loanwords from French (malapert); on this model, ...

Word root mal means bad, wrong, from Latin: mal, sample words like malicious, malevolent, malfeasance, malfunction, malady, malign, malnutrition, ...

From Old French mal, from Latin malus, possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“bad, wrong”). Near cognates include Portuguese mal, Italian male and ... Albanian · Azerbaijani · Dutch · French

Combining form. Middle English, from Anglo-French, from mal bad (from Latin malus) & mal badly, from Latin male, from malus ...

mal is of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French mal; Italian mal.