Etymology

subsense

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Today it means: A sense of a word that reflects a part or aspect of a more general (broader) sense. Full definition →

English sense ← Middle English sense ← Old French sens
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sent-
  7. Proto-Italic*sentiō
  8. Latinsentiō
  9. Latinsēnsu
  10. Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
  11. Frankish*sinn
  12. Vulgar Latin*sennus
  13. Old Frenchsens
  14. Middle Englishsense
  15. Englishsense
  16. English todaysubsense

From sub- + sense.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.