malign: [14] Malign comes, probably via Old French, from Latin malignus ‘wicked’. This was derived from malus ‘bad’, a word of unknown origin (some have tried to link it with English small). Malus is of course the starting point for a wide range of other English words, including malady [13] (ultimately from Vulgar Latin *male habitus ‘in bad condition’); malaise [18] (which originated in Old French as a conflation of mal aise ‘bad ease’); malapropism; malaria; malediction [15] (etymologically ‘evil saying’); malevolent [16] (literally ‘wishing evil’); malice [13] (from Latin malitia, a derivative of malus); and malingerer [18] (from French malingre, which may have been a compound of mal- and haingre ‘weak’). Malignant [16] comes from the present participle of Latin malignāre ‘act with malice’, a verb derived from malignus. => malady, malaise, malaria, malignant, malingerer
malign (adj.)
early 14c., from Old French maligne "having an evil nature," from Latin malignus "wicked, bad-natured," from male "badly" (see mal-) + -gnus "born," from gignere "to bear, beget," from PIE root *gn- "to bear" (see genus).
malign (v.)
"to slander," mid-15c., from earlier more literal sense of "to plot, to contrive" (early 15c.), from Old French malignier "to plot, deceive, pervert," from Late Latin malignare "to do maliciously," from malignus (see malign (adj.)). Related: Maligned; maligning.
例文
1. Reliance on sponsorship can have a malign effect on theatre groups.
の協賛依存は劇団に悪影響を与える。
2.Your behaviours exercised a malign influence on the children.
あなたの行動は子供たちに悪影響を与えています。
3. Malign fate had broken their necks，perhaps，but never their hearts.
致命的なジンクスは首を折った時期があったが、彼らの勇気を殺したことはなかった。
4. " How did we malign you?
「私たちはどのようにあなたをいじめますか？
5.In an institutional environment that demanded lying，more malign lies could florish.