English

maldigest

From mal- + digest.

Formed from mal- + digest

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

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Latin gerō ‘to carry’

Latin dīgerō ‘carry apart’

Latin dīgestus ‘separated, divided, distributed’

Middle English digesten

Today it means

verb To digest poorly or in a less than perfect way.

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

Etymograph / maldigest