Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A prefix in composition denoting ill, or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form
male- , as inmale diction,male volent. Seemalice .
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- prefix
bad ,badly as inmaladjusted ,malcontent -faulty ,faultily as inmalfunction - prefix
not
Etymologies
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From Old French mal- from the Latin adverb male, from malus.
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