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Where does “photoalignment” come from?

photoalignment (English) comes from English alignment, from French alignement, from French aligner, from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from Latin lineare, from Latin līnea, from Latin līnum — flax.

photoalignment (English): The light-induced alignment of certain liquid...

Definitions

  1. The light-induced alignment of certain liquid...

Ancestry of “photoalignment”, 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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom →