English

malconceived

From mal- + conceive + -ed.

Formed from mal- + conceive + -ed

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Latin concipio ‘to devise, to conceive’

Old French concevoir ‘to conceive (an idea)’

Middle English conceyven ‘to become pregnant’

Today it means

adj Badly or wrongly conceived.

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

Etymograph / malconceived