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Where does “aligner” come from?

aligner (French) comes from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from Latin lineare, from Latin līnea, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Italic līnom, from Proto-Indo-European līnom — flax.

aligner (French): to align

Definitions

  1. to align

Ancestry of “aligner”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchaligner—
2Old Frenchalignier—
3Latinlinearepresent active infinitive of līneō; second-person...
4Latinlīnea—
5Latinlīnum—
6Proto-Italiclīnom—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax

Words derived from “aligner”

  • alignment
  • realignment
  • misalignment
  • malalignment
  • nonalignment
  • photoalignment
  • dealignment
  • disalignment
  • coalignment
  • prealignment
  • autoalignment
  • unalignment
  • antialignment
  • subalignment
  • pseudoalignment
  • allineatore
  • allineare
  • allineamento
  • disallineare
  • allineate
  • allineato
  • allineatamente
  • réaligner
  • alignement
Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom →