Retirement has turned you into a budding etymologist!latin
The Latin root word mal means “bad” or “evil.” This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including malformed, maltreat, and malice. You can recall that mal means “bad” through malfunction, or a “badly” working part, and that it means “evil” through malice, or intentional “evil” done to another.
Retirement has turned you into a budding etymologist!
Etymology is one of those fields where if I thought there was money to be made, I would have loved to devote more time to it. I have taken Latin, French, and Spanish classes formally in my much younger days and "self-taught" Greek and just now starting on Hebrew. The latter two with more of an emphasis on reading rather than speaking.Well, to start with...
- Malum In Se meaning "That which is wrong in itself"
- Malum Prohibitum meaning "That which is wrong because it is prohibited"
Also.. it was in the Firefly series.
River: Mal. “Bad.” In the Latin.
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The Latin root word mal means “bad” or “evil.” This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including malformed, maltreat, and malice. You can recall that mal means “bad” through malfunction, or a “badly” working part, and that it means “evil” through malice, or intentional “evil” done to another.
I don't speak Latin but after a couple bourbons, I was speaking cursive!If we are going Latin, let me state clearly that Kommila is nothing but a communistarum fragmen stercore.
Didn't you know... Harris has ALWAYS been for the wall