Etymology

subtask

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Today it means: An act that must be completed as an element of completing a larger and more complex task. Full definition →

English task ← Latin sub-
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The story

  1. Latinsub
  2. Latinsub-
  3. Englishsub-
  4. Englishtask
  5. English todaysubtask

From sub- + task.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.