Etymograph

English

subexcedant

From sub- + exceed + -ant.

Formed from sub + exceed + ant

Latin excēdō ‘to go beyond’

Old French exceder

Middle English exceden

English exceed

Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā

Old English ǣmete

Middle English ampte ‘an ant’

English ant

Today it means

adj (of a sequence of nonnegative integers) such that the value of each term is less than the position of that term in the sequence (e.g. the first term is less than 1, the second term is less than 2, etc.)

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Etymograph / subexcedant