Where does “assemble” come from?
Assemble comes from Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler, from Medieval Latin assimulo, combining Latin ad- with a root from Proto-Indo-European sem- meaning together.
assemble (English): To put together; To gather as a group; to...
Definitions
- To put together; To gather as a group; to...
Ancestry of “assemble”, step by step
assemble traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French assemble
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | assemble | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 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 |