Etymograph

English

subalign

From sub- + align.

Formed from sub- + align

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Italic *līnom

…

Latin lineare ‘make straight or perpendicular’

Old French alignier

Middle French aligner

Middle English alynen ‘copulate’

English align

Today it means

verb To form a subalignment

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “subalign”. 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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