Etymology

subscriber

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Today it means: A person who subscribes to a publication or a service. Full definition →

English subscribe ← Middle English subscriben ← Latin subscrībere
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-?
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kreybʰ-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kréybʰeti
  8. Proto-Italic*skreiβō
  9. Latinscrībō
  10. Latinsubscrībere
  11. Middle Englishsubscriben
  12. Englishsubscribe
  13. English todaysubscriber

From subscribe + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.