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Where does “compilen” come from?

compilen (Middle English) comes from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlāre.

Ancestry of “compilen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchcompilerto compile
2Latincompīlāre—

Words derived from “compilen”

  • compile
  • recompile
  • decompile
  • precompiler
  • compilable
  • precompile
  • decompiler
  • compilement
  • uncompilable
  • recompilement
  • compilability
  • noncompilable
  • transcompile
  • transpile
  • recompiler
  • recompilable
  • decompilable
  • compiland
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