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- Latin · derived fromdēfōrmitās“deformity, ugliness”
- Middle French · derived fromdeformite
- Middle English · inherited fromdeformite
- English todaydeformity
Inherited from Middle English deformite, from Middle French deformite, from Latin dēfōrmitās (“deformity, ugliness”), from dēfōrmis (“deformed, ugly”) + -itās, from dē + fōrma (“shape, form”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.