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- Latin · derived frommalitia“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”
- Old French · derived frommalice
- Middle English · inherited frommalice
- English todaymalice
From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.