Etymology

subconcept

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Today it means: A secondary or subsidiary concept. Full definition →

English concept ← Middle French concept ← Latin conceptus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. Latinconceptus
  7. Middle Frenchconcept
  8. Englishconcept
  9. English todaysubconcept

From sub- + concept.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.