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Where does “subsidiaire” come from?

subsidiaire (Middle French) comes from Latin subsidiarius — reserve.

Ancestry of “subsidiaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsubsidiariusreserve

Words derived from “subsidiaire”

  • subsidiary
  • subsidiarily
  • subsidiarization
  • subsidiarize
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