Etymology

subalgebra

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Today it means: A closed subset of an algebra. Full definition →

English algebra ← Medieval Latin algebra ← Arabic الْجَبْر (al-jabr)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. Arabicجَبَرَ (jabara)
  7. Arabicالْجَبْر (al-jabr)
  8. Medieval Latinalgebra
  9. Englishalgebra
  10. English todaysubalgebra

From sub- + algebra.

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