The story
- Medieval Latin · learned borrowing fromsubsūmere
- English todaysubsume
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
subsume
Today it means: To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else. Full definition →
Medieval Latin subsūmere