Where does “subrecommendation” come from?
subrecommendation (English) comes from English recommendation, from Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Galician -ción, from Spanish -ción, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
subrecommendation (English): A subsidiary recommendation
Definitions
- A subsidiary recommendation
Ancestry of “subrecommendation”, step by step
subrecommendation traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English recommendation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | recommendation | An act of recommending; That which is... |
| 2 | Middle English | recommendacioun | Offering up one's good wishes or hopes |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | recomendacion | — |
| 4 | Galician | -ción | -tion |
| 5 | Spanish | -ción | -tion |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English sub
| 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 | fixed, set, having been set |
| 8 | Latin | stō | to stand |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | staēō | stand |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sth₂éh₁yeti | to stand |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |