English
subsaturation
From sub- + saturation.
Formed from sub- + saturation
Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’
Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’
Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’
English sub-
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satiate’
Latin satur ‘full, sated’
Latin saturō ‘to fill to repletion, sate, satisfy’
Late Latin saturatio ‘act of filling or satisfying’
English saturation
Today it means
noun The condition of being subsaturated
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / subsaturation