Etymograph

English

malproliferation

From mal- + proliferation.

Formed from mal- + proliferation

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

French proliférer ‘to proliferate, to mushroom, to increase in…’

French prolifération ‘proliferation, spreading’

English proliferation

Today it means

noun Pathological proliferation.

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

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