Etymograph

English

malloc

Blend of map + allocate.

A blend of map + allocate

Medieval Latin mappa mundī

Old French mapamonde ‘world map’

Middle English mappemounde ‘world map’

English map

Old Latin stlocus

Latin locus ‘place’

Latin locō

Latin allocō ‘to allocate’

Latin allocātus ‘allocated’

English allocate

Today it means

noun A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.

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Etymograph / malloc