English
subnect
Subnect comes from Latin subnecto ‘to bind or tie under or beneath’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubnecto‘to bind or tie under or beneath’
- Englishearliest quotation 1710subnect
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubnecto‘to bind or tie under or beneath’
- Englishearliest quotation 1710subnect
Earliest quotation: 1710, Alexander Pope: “his robe might be subnected with a Fibula”.
A compound of sub ‘under’ + necto ‘to tie’
Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’
Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’
Latin sub ‘under’
Every English word from Latin subnecto
Today it means
verb To (literally) tie or fasten beneath, or to (figuratively) join beneath, i.e. as an addendum.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin subnecto / subnect