English

subcaption

From sub- + caption.

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

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Proto-Italic *kapjō ‘to take, seize’

Archaic Latin kapiō

Latin capiō ‘to take, to seize’

Latin captiō ‘deception, fraud’

Today it means

noun A caption that is subordinate to another caption.

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

Etymograph / subcaption