English

malfeature

From mal- + feature.

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’

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Latin factūra

Old French faiture

Anglo-Norman feture

Middle English feture ‘form, bodily profile’

Today it means

noun A bad feature (cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing).

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

Etymograph / malfeature