mal-

From Old French mal- from the Latin adverb male, from malus.

mal-

1. bad, badly as in maladjusted, malcontent - faulty, faultily as in malfunction
2. not

• mis-

• ALM, AML, LAM, Lam, Lam., M.L.A., MLA, lam

Borrowed from French mal- in its secondary sense of denoting the opposite.

mal-

1. denotes opposites, usually having worse meaning than their roots

   e.g. ‎mal- + ‎alta (“high”) → ‎malalta (“low”).

• ne-, sen-

From Middle French mal-, from Old French mal-, from mal (“bad; badly”).

• IPA^(key): /mal/

mal-

1. badly; wrongly

   ‎mal- + ‎faisant → ‎malfaisant (“harmful”)

2. denotes the opposite of the unprefixed form

mal-

1. bad; badly

• mau-

mal-

1. bad; badly

• mes-

mal-

1. mal-; bad; badly