myEtymology.com: English etymology of compiling

Etymology of the English word compiling

the English word compiling

derived from the English word compile

derived from the Old French word compiler

derived from the Latin word compilare (rob, pillage, snatch)

using the Latin prefix com-

derived from the Latin word cum (with)

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kom (near, with, together)

derived from the Latin word pilare (grow hairy; depilate; plunder)

derived from the Late Latin word pilus (hair; chief; hair; bit, whit)

derived from the Greek word pilus

derived from the Latin word pila (ball; sphere; squared pillar; pier, pile)