Where does “subassembly” come from?
Subassembly comes from English assembly with the prefix sub- from Latin sub, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European upo meaning under.
subassembly (English): An assembly that is assembled with others to form...
Definitions
- An assembly that is assembled with others to form...
Ancestry of “subassembly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | assembly | A set of pieces that work together in unison as a... |
| 2 | Middle English | assemblee | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | asemblee | an assembly |
| 4 | Old French | asemblee | an assembly |
| 5 | Old French | asembler | to collect up; to get together |
| 6 | Latin | assimulō | to consider as similar, make similar, assimilate |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |