Combine
/kəmˈbaɪn/noun
To join or unite two or more things into one; to merge or bring together.
Did you know?Combine comes from Latin roots meaning ‘together’ + ‘to bind,’ and the same binding root also gave English words like ‘bundle’ and ‘band’ through distant descendants.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bʰendʰ-
“to bind, tie”
Latin
Latin
com- + bīnī
“together + two by two; joined in pairs”
Late Latin
Latin
combīnāre
“to join or unite”
Old French
Old French
combiner
“to join, unite, or link together”
Late Middle English
English
combine
“to join or unite into one”
Modern English
English
combine
“to join or merge into one whole”