Etymology

subchapter

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Today it means: A subsection of a chapter. Full definition →

English chapter ← Latin sub-
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The story

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Englishchapter
  5. English todaysubchapter

From sub- + chapter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.