English

subfund

From sub- + fund.

A compound of sub- + fund

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ‘bottom’

Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o-s

Proto-Italic *fundos

Latin fundus ‘bottom; piece of land, estate’

English fund

Today it means

noun A fund making up part of a larger fund.

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