Etymology

subcover

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Today it means: A cover which is a subset of another cover. Full definition →

English cover ← Middle English coveren ← Old French covrir
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The story

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Latincooperiō
  5. Old Frenchcovrir
  6. Middle Englishcoveren
  7. Englishcover
  8. English todaysubcover

From sub- + cover.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.