Where does “assembler” come from?
Assembler comes from English assemble, from Old French -er and Latin ad- plus -are, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád and sem- meaning to go together.
assembler (English): A program that reads source code written in...
Definitions
- A program that reads source code written in...
Ancestry of “assembler”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | assemble | To put together; To gather as a group; to... |
| 2 | French | assemble | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 3 | French | assembler | to assemble |
| 4 | Old French | asembler | to collect up; to get together |
| 5 | Latin | assimulō | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “assembler”