Etymograph

English

malconstruction

From mal- + construction.

Formed from mal- + construction

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *strew- ‘to strew’

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Latin cōnstruō ‘to heap’

Latin cōnstructiō ‘the act of putting’

Old French construction

Middle English construccioun

English construction

Today it means

noun Synonym of misconstruction.

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

Etymograph / malconstruction