Where does “subradiant” come from?

subradiant (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.

subradiant (English): Of, pertaining to, or producing subradiance

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or producing subradiance

Ancestry of “subradiant”, step by step

subradiant 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 radiant

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishradiantRadiating light and/or heat; Emitted as...
2Middle Frenchradiant
3Latinradiantisgenitive masculine singular of radiāns; genitive...
4Latinradiarepresent active infinitive of radiō; second-person...
5Latinradiusray; staff, rod; spoke
6English-ánOf or pertaining to;. Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a
7Middle English-an
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
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