Etymology

superset

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Today it means: (symbol: ⊇) With respect to another set, a set such that each of the elements of the other set is also an element of the set. Full definition →

English set ← Middle English set ← Latin super-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Middle Englishset
  8. Englishset
  9. English todaysuperset

From super- + set.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.