Where does “subparagraph” come from?
Subparagraph comes from English paragraph with the prefix sub- from Latin, ultimately tracing through Ancient Greek γράφω meaning "to write" and Proto-Indo-European roots denoting scratching or writing.
subparagraph (English): Part of a longer paragraph that can be considered...
Definitions
- Part of a longer paragraph that can be considered...
Ancestry of “subparagraph”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | sub | A submarine; A submarine sandwich: a sandwich... |
| 2 | English | substitute | To use in place of something else, with the same... |
| 3 | Middle English | substituten | — |
| 4 | Latin | substitutus | substituted |
| 5 | Latin | substituo | I place next to, under, or instead of; I... |
| 6 | Latin | statuo | I set up, station; I establish, determine, fix; I... |
| 7 | Latin | stātus | — |
| 8 | Latin | stō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | staēō | stand |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sth₂éh₁yeti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |