[1605–15; mis-1 + esteem]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crater, gothic, ideal, independent, surfacemis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust