Etymology

subalpine

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Today it means: At the foot of the Alps Full definition →

English Alpine ← Latin sub- ← Proto-Italic *supo
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. EnglishAlpine
  7. English todaysubalpine

From sub- + Alpine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.