Etymograph

English

malapportionment

From mal- + apportionment.

A compound of mal- + apportionment

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Today it means

noun Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).

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

Etymograph / malapportionment