Etymology

subsegment

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Today it means: A segment wholly contained in another. Full definition →

English segment ← Latin sub-
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The story

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Englishsegment
  5. English todaysubsegment

From sub- + segment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.