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Where does “malalignment” come from?

Malalignment comes from English mal- (bad) combined with alignment, which derives from French alignement, from Old French aligner (to align), from Latin ad- (to) and linea (line).

malalignment (English): Bad or wrong alignment; misalignment

Definitions

  1. Bad or wrong alignment; misalignment

Ancestry of “malalignment”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishalignmentAn arrangement of items in a line; The process of...
2Frenchalignementalignment
3Frenchalignerto align
4Middle Frenchaligner—
5Old Frenchalignier—
6Latinlinearepresent active infinitive of līneō; second-person...
7Latinlīnea—
8Latinlīnum—
9Proto-Italiclīnom—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax
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