Etymology

subvariety

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Today it means: A subset of a variety which is itself a variety. Full definition →

English variety ← Latin varietās ← Middle French varieté
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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*h₁weh₂-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₁wh₂-s-?
  8. Proto-Italic*wasios?
  9. Latinvarius
  10. Latinvarietās
  11. Middle Frenchvarieté
  12. Latinvarietās
  13. Englishvariety
  14. English todaysubvariety

From sub- + variety.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.