Etymology

malic

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Today it means: Pertaining to apples. Full definition →

French malique ← Latin mālum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frommālum
  2. French · derived frommalique
  3. English todaymalic

From French malique, from Latin mālum.

Words from the same roots

Latinmālum all →

peachmalummaleic acidmalum in se

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