malformation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-?

Proto-Italic *malos

Latin malus

Latin maleder.

Old French mal-

English mal-

English formation

English malformation

From mal- + formation.

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Noun

malformation (countable and uncountable, plural malformations)

1. An abnormal formation.
   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Search for Mr. Hyde”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 25:

     Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; […]

2. (teratology) An abnormal developmental feature of offspring.

Derived terms

• arteriovenous malformation
• Chiari malformation
• Dandy-Walker malformation
• Arnold-Chiari malformation

Translations

abnormal formation

• Bulgarian: деформация (bg) f (deformacija)
• French: malformation (fr) f
• Greek: διαμαρτία (el) f (diamartía), δυσμορφία (el) f (dysmorfía)
• Irish: míchuma f, anchuma f, éagruth m, mídhéanamh m
• Italian: malformazione (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: misdannelse m

• Piedmontese: malformassion f
• Portuguese: malformação (pt) f, má-formação f
• Spanish: malformación (es) f

(teratology) abnormal developmental feature of offspring

• Bulgarian: уродливост (bg) f (urodlivost)
• French: malformation (fr) f, difformité (fr) f
• Greek: διαμαρτία (el) f (diamartía)
• Indonesian: malformasi, malaformasi
• Portuguese: malformação (pt) f, má-formação f
• Spanish: malformación (es) f

See also

• deformation

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

malformation f (plural malformations)

1. malformation

Further reading

• “malformation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012