English
aligner
From align + -er.
A compound of align + -er
Proto-Italic *līnom
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Latin lineare ‘make straight or perpendicular’
Old French alignier
Middle French aligner
Middle English alynen ‘copulate’
English align
Today it means
noun One who, or that which, aligns.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “aligner”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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