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.
See Malignant. Extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as malignancy of heart. 1. Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as the malignancy of the aspect of planets. The malignancy of my fate might distemper yours. 2. Virulence; tendency to mortification or to a fatal issue; as the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.