Where does “assembly” come from?
Assembly comes from Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee, from Old French asembler meaning "to gather together," from Latin assimulare combining ad- "to" with a root meaning "together."
assembly (English): A set of pieces that work together in unison as a...
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- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a...
Ancestry of “assembly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | assemblee | — |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | asemblee | an assembly |
| 3 | Old French | asemblee | an assembly |
| 4 | Old French | asembler | to collect up; to get together |
| 5 | Latin | assimulō | to consider as similar, make similar, assimilate |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |