English

subscreen

From sub- + screen.

Formed from sub- + screen

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to cut off, sever’

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Old Dutch skirm

Middle Dutch scherm

Anglo-Norman escren ‘firescreen’

Middle English scren

Today it means

noun A subsidiary screen making up part of a larger screen (especially the kind used for displaying computer output).

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

Etymograph / subscreen