male
Latin
adv
Definitions
- badly
- wrongly
- cruelly, wickedly
- not much; feebly
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mel-
Gloss
soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
暗, 闇, 冥
Emoji
🍦 🔈️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Mallory English
- malefic English
- malversation English
- mollification English
- mulierose English
- emolliēns Latin
- faciō Latin
- male habitus Latin
- maleficium Latin
- maleficus Latin
- malus Latin
- mollis Latin
- molluscus Latin
- muliebris Latin
- mulier Latin
- muliēbris Latin
- mal- Italian
- malaccio Italian
- malaccolto Italian
- maldicente Italian
- male Italian
- malefico Italian
- malessere Italian
- malincuore Italian
- malissimo Italian
- malmenare Italian
- malsecco Italian
- mal French
- malversation French
- malverser French
- maléfique French
- mal- Spanish, Castilian
- βλεννός Ancient Greek
- μάλα Ancient Greek
- μέλος Ancient Greek
- μαλθακός Ancient Greek
- μᾶλλον Ancient Greek
- *(h₂)moldus Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)mal- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *mel- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- mal Portuguese
- mal- Portuguese
- *mailą Proto-Germanic
- *moľь Proto-Slavic
- mal Old French
- mal- Old French
- malgré Old French
- mautalant Old French
- mautalent Old French
- malèfic Catalan, Valencian
- mal Galician
- melc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mal Norman
- mal Middle French
- mal- Middle French
- mal Old Portuguese
- *malnos Proto-Celtic
- *meldo Proto-Celtic
- *mello- Proto-Celtic
- *malos Proto-Italic
- mâl Friulian
- melas Lithuanian
- malfesour xno
- mali Sardinian
- *mel(n)- bat-pro