Etymology

malus

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Today it means: The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance. Full definition →

Latin malus
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malus · noun1

  1. Latin · borrowed frommalus
  2. English todaymalus

From Latin malus, by analogy with bonus (“additional compensation”). Doublet of mal.

malus · noun2

  1. translingual · borrowed fromMalus
  2. Latin · borrowed frommālus
  3. English todaymalus

From Latin mālus and translingual Malus.

Words from the same roots

Latinmalus all →

maltheism

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