Etymology

unsubscribe

U1N1S1U1B3S1C3R1I1B3E1

Today it means: To cancel a subscription, especially to an online service. Full definition →

English subscribe ← Middle English subscriben ← Latin subscrībere
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
  3. Proto-Germanic*anda-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*anda-
  5. Old Englishand-
  6. Old Englishon-
  7. Middle Englishon-
  8. Englishun-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  10. Proto-Italic*supo
  11. Latinsub
  12. Latinsub-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-?
  14. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kreybʰ-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kréybʰeti
  16. Proto-Italic*skreiβō
  17. Latinscrībō
  18. Latinsubscrībere
  19. Middle Englishsubscriben
  20. Englishsubscribe
  21. English todayunsubscribe

From un- + subscribe.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.