malvatz
Old Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”). Compare Old French malvais.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
malvatz
- bad (not good)
Descendants edit
(many via the analogical form malvat)
- → Catalan: malvat
- → Italian: malvagio
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: malvaz
- → Old Spanish: malvazo, malvado
- → Piedmontese: malvas (medieval)
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “malifatius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 95