Where does “sub-internship” come from?

sub-internship (English) comes from English sub, from English substitute, from Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, from Latin substituo, from Latin statuo, from Latin stātus, from Latin stō.

sub-internship (English): an acting internship; a clinical rotation of a fourth-year medical student in the United States medical education system

Definitions

  1. an acting internship; a clinical rotation of a fourth-year medical student in the United States medical education system

Ancestry of “sub-internship”, step by step

sub-internship traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English sub

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsubA submarine; A submarine sandwich: a sandwich...
2EnglishsubstituteTo use in place of something else, with the same...
3Middle Englishsubstituten
4Latinsubstitutussubstituted
5LatinsubstituoI place next to, under, or instead of; I...
6LatinstatuoI set up, station; I establish, determine, fix; I...
7Latinstātusfixed, set, having been set
8Latinstōto stand
9Proto-Italicstaēōstand
10Proto-Indo-Europeansth₂éh₁yetito stand
11Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-

via English internship

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishinternshipA job taken by a student in order to learn a...
2EnglishinternA person who is interned, forcibly or...
3Frenchinternerto intern, to imprison; to section
4Latininternevocative masculine singular of internus; inner,...
5Latinly; used to form adverbs from adjectives
6Latindis-asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;...
7Latincalceusshoe
8Latincalxlimestone; chalk; the finish line
9Ancient Greekχάλιξsmall stone, pebble; gravel, rubble
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-