Proto-Indo-European root forming words meaning "to turn, bend."
The prefix is active in Modern English, sometimes meaning "subordinate" (as in subcontractor) "inferior" (17c., as in subhuman) "smaller" (18c.) "a part or division of" (c. The original meaning is now obscured in many words from Latin ( suggest, suspect, subject, etc.).
#Defien subvert full#
In Old French the prefix appears in the full Latin form only "in learned adoptions of old Latin compounds", and in popular use it was represented by sous-, sou- as in French souvenir from Latin subvenire, souscrire (Old French souzescrire) from subscribere, etc. In Latin assimilated to following -c-, -f-, -g-, -p-, and often -r- and -m. Word-forming element meaning "under, beneath behind from under resulting from further division," from Latin preposition sub "under, below, beneath, at the foot of," also "close to, up to, towards " of time, "within, during " figuratively "subject to, in the power of " also "a little, somewhat" (as in sub-horridus "somewhat rough"), from PIE *(s)up- (perhaps representing *ex-upo-), a variant form of the root *upo "under," also "up from under." The Latin word also was used as a prefix and in various combinations.
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