Etymology

assembler

A1S1S1E1M3B3L1E1R1

Today it means: A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools. Full definition →

English assemble ← Middle English assemblen ← Old French assembler
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sem-h₂-lo-
  7. Proto-Italic*semalis
  8. Latinsimilis
  9. Latinsimulō
  10. Medieval Latinassimulō
  11. Old Frenchassembler
  12. Middle Englishassemblen
  13. Englishassemble
  14. English todayassembler

From assemble + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.