English
maleficiate
Maleficiate comes from Late Latin maleficiatus ‘evil, wicked’.
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEmaleficiatus‘evil, wicked’
- Englishearliest quotation 1624maleficiate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEmaleficiatus‘evil, wicked’
- Englishearliest quotation 1624maleficiate
Earliest quotation: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “every black dog or cat he sees he suspecteth…”
Every English word from Late Latin maleficiatus
Today it means
adj cursed; bewitched
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Late Latin maleficiatus / maleficiate