adjective/mo.vɛ/
bad; wrong, incorrect
“Il a choisi la mauvaise réponse.” — He chose the wrong response.
Inherited from Middle French maulvais, from Old French malvais, malveis (“evil, wicked, bad, of poor or inferior quality", later also "unlucky”), from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”, 4th c.), from Latin malus (“bad”) + fātum (“fate”). Cognate with Italian malvagio, and with Spanish and Portuguese malvado, all of them through Old Occitan malvatz. According to some sources, influenced by Frankish *balu ~ balwa- ("evil, wicked, of poor quality"; compare Old Saxon balowīso (“one who leads anot