Etymology

subclass

sub·class
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Today it means: A secondary class within a main class. Full definition →

English class ← Middle French classe ← Latin classis
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*kelh₁-
  7. Proto-Italic*klāssis
  8. Latinclassis
  9. Middle Frenchclasse
  10. Englishclass
  11. English todaysubclass

From sub- + class.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.