English

subfont

From sub- + font.

Formed from sub- + font

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- ‘to flow’

Proto-Italic *fontis ‘spring, well’

Latin fons ‘fountain’

Old English font

English font

Today it means

noun A subset of a font, holding only some of its glyphs.

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