| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| malentendu |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mal·en·ten·du |
| PRONUNCIATION: | m l n-t n-d  |
| NOUN: | A misunderstanding. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from mal entendu, misunderstood : mal, badly (from Latin male; see mel-3 in Appendix I) + entendu, past participle of entendre, to understand (from Old French; see intend).
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