The story
- Latin · derived frommale
- French · derived frommalversation
- English todaymalversation
From French malversation, from malverser, from Latin male versari (“behave badly”). Compare Spanish malversación (“embezzlement”).
Words from the same roots
Latinmale all →
malocclusionmorphewmal-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.