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Where does “disallineare” come from?

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

disallineare (Italian): to misalign

Definitions

  1. to misalign

Ancestry of “disallineare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianallineareto align; to line up
2Frenchalignerto align
3Middle Frenchaligner—
4Old Frenchalignier—
5Latinlinearepresent active infinitive of līneō; second-person...
6Latinlīnea—
7Latinlīnum—
8Proto-Italiclīnom—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax
Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom →