PLACE NAMES. The next most common source of Jewish last names is probably places. Jews used the town or region where they lived, or where their families came from, as their last name. As a result, the Germanic origins of most East European Jews is reflected in their names.
For other uses, see Malignancy (disambiguation). Malignancy (from Latin male, meaning 'badly', and -gnus, meaning 'born') is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse. Malignancy is most familiar as a characterization of cancer.
1. Of a disease; characterized by extreme virulence; exceptionally contagious or infectious. Now chiefly used as the distinctive epithet of a definite variety of a disease, as in malignant cholera, malignant small-pox, etc. 2. Growing worse, resisting treatment, said of cancerous growths.