English

Subatlantic

sub- + Atlantic

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Ancient Greek Ἄτλᾱς

Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντικός ‘Atlantean, of Atlas’

Latin Ā̆tlanticus

Middle English Atlantyke

Today it means

name The current climatic age of the Holocene epoch. It started about 2,500 years BP.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Subatlantic