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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

  1. A program that reads source code written in...

Ancestry of “assembler”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishassembleTo put together; To gather as a group; to...
2Frenchassemblefirst-person singular present indicative of...
3Frenchassemblerto assemble
4Old Frenchasemblerto collect up; to get together
5Latinassimulō—
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “assembler”

  • macroassembler
  • asembler
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