Etymograph

English

pseudoalignment

From pseudo- + alignment.

Formed from pseudo- + alignment

Ancient Greek ψεύδω ‘to lie’

Ancient Greek ψευδής ‘false, lying’

English pseudo-

Proto-Italic *līnom

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Old French alignier

Middle French aligner

French aligner ‘to align’

French alignement ‘alignment (all senses)’

English alignment

Today it means

noun A quick method of alignment (of genomic reads) using secondary information.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pseudoalignment”. 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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