English

malalignment

From mal- + alignment.

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Proto-Italic *līnom

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Old French alignier

Middle French aligner

French aligner ‘to align’

French alignement ‘alignment (all senses)’

Today it means

noun Bad or wrong alignment; misalignment.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / malalignment