English

malinvest

From mal- + invest.

A compound of mal- + invest

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Middle French investir

English invest

Today it means

verb To invest incorrectly or unwisely

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