Where does “subsigmoid” come from?

subsigmoid (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.

subsigmoid (English): Somewhat or partly sigmoid

Definitions

  1. Somewhat or partly sigmoid

Ancestry of “subsigmoid”, step by step

subsigmoid 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 sigmoid

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsigmoidCurved in two directions, like the letter "S", or...
2Frenchsigmoïdesigmoid, sigmoidal
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
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