English

malpose

From mal- + pose.

Formed from mal- + pose

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Ancient Greek παύω ‘stop, end’

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Latin pausa ‘pause’

Vulgar Latin pausāre ‘to blin, cease, pause’

Old French poser ‘to put, place, stell, settle, lodge’

Middle English posen

English pose

Today it means

verb Synonym of malposition.

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