malentendu

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Votre longue liste semble issue d'un malentendu qui repose sur une méprise née d'une confusion.

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  1. French, from mal entendu, misunderstood : mal, badly (from Latin male; see mel-3 in Indo-European roots) + entendu, past participle of entendre, to understand (from Old French; see intend).
 

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