Where does “disassemble” come from?
Disassemble comes from Middle English dis- combined with assemble, which derives from Latin ad- and Latin sem-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád and sem-.
disassemble (English): To take to pieces; to reverse the process of...
Definitions
- To take to pieces; to reverse the process of...
Ancestry of “disassemble”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 |