Etymology

subquery

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Today it means: A query embedded within a more extensive query, relating only to the data returned by the parent query. Full definition →

English query ← Latin sub-
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The story

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Englishquery
  5. English todaysubquery

From sub- + query.

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