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Where does “misalignment” come from?

Misalignment derives from English alignment, from French alignement, from Middle French aligner, from Latin ad- and linea, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning "to go" and "line."

misalignment (English): the state, or an instance, of being misaligned

Definitions

  1. the state, or an instance, of being misaligned

Ancestry of “misalignment”, 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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