Where does “antialignment” come from?

antialignment (English) comes from English alignment, from French alignement, from French aligner, from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from Latin lineare, from Latin līnea, from Latin līnum — flax.

antialignment (English): The alignment of two things in opposite...

Definitions

  1. The alignment of two things in opposite...

Ancestry of “antialignment”, step by step

antialignment traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English alignment

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishalignmentAn arrangement of items in a line; The process of...
2Frenchalignementalignment
3Frenchalignerto align
4Middle Frenchaligner
5Old Frenchalignier
6Latinlinearepresent active infinitive of līneō; second-person...
7LatinlīneaA linen thread
8Latinlīnumflax
9Proto-Italiclīnom
10Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax

via English anti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishantiOpposed to something; That has a torsion angle...
2Englishanti-Against, hostile to; Contrasting with the norm;...
3Ancient Greekἀντι-anti-, against; like, reminiscent of
4Ancient Greekᾰ̓ντῐ́opposite
Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom
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