Where does “assemblage” come from?
Assemblage comes from French assemblage, formed from the French verb assembler with the suffix -age, deriving ultimately from Latin ad- (to) and Proto-Indo-European sem- (together).
assemblage (English): The process of assembling or bringing together; A...
Definitions
- The process of assembling or bringing together; A...
Ancestry of “assemblage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | assemblage | assemblage, gathering, assembly; jointing; joint |
| 2 | French | assembler | to assemble |
| 3 | Old French | asembler | to collect up; to get together |
| 4 | Latin | assimulō | to consider as similar, make similar, assimilate |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |