Etymograph

English

malparkage

From mal- + park + -age.

Formed from mal- + park + -age

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Frankish *parruk ‘enclosure, pen, fence’

Medieval Latin parcus

Old French parc ‘livestock pen’

Middle English park ‘enclosure’

English park

The story

Perhaps introduced in the animated TV series The Simpsons; see Citations:malparkage.

Today it means

noun An act of parking a vehicle illegally.

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

Etymograph / malparkage