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historical dictionarymw-mal
Mal- — Definition and Word History
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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Male is not mal-, bad.
Male descends through Anglo-French masle from Latin masculus and mās; the bad prefix mal- belongs to Latin malus.
mās
mās → masculus → masle → male → male
Etymology: mal- from malus, badPublishes the unrelated lookalike family.
male dossier ↗truth record ↗86UNVEILING
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Does male come from mal-, bad?
No. Male comes through French from Latin masculus and mās; mal- comes from a different Latin family headed by malus, bad.
Etymology: mal- from Latin malus, badPublishes the separate bad family.
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