Etymograph

English

malproportion

From mal- + proportion.

Formed from mal- + proportion

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

Latin prōportiō ‘comparative relation, proportion, symmetry,…’

Old French proportion

Middle English proporcion

English proportion

Today it means

noun Synonym of misproportion.

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

Etymograph / malproportion