Word Origin Summary

Sub- is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• subalterno

  Portuguese · derived from

• sombre

  English · derived from

• sokurso

  IDO · borrowed from

• succour

  English · derived from

• so-

  Italian · derived from

• sojourn

  English · derived from

• sub-

  French · derived from

• subordinar

  Spanish · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root