English

malnormal

From mal- + normal.

Formed from mal- + normal

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Latin nōrma ‘carpenter's square’

Latin nōrmālis ‘made according to a carpenter's square’

Today it means

adj Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting malnormality

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

Etymograph / malnormal