Etymograph

English

subsequent

Subsequent is borrowed from Middle French subséquent, from Latin subsequēns, present participle of subsequor ‘to follow’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsequor‘to follow’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubsequor‘to follow, succeed’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubsequēnsas subsequentis‘following’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600subséquent
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1895subsequent

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsequor‘to follow’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubsequor‘to follow, succeed’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubsequēnsas subsequentis‘following’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600subséquent
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1895subsequent

Earliest quotation: 1895, William Morris Davis, The Development of Certain English Rivers: “The peculiar position of the subsequent Derwent, close to…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- ‘to follow’

say, see, second, social, saw, society, executive, sight, suit, associate, consecutive, execute, prosecution, pursue, saga, sue, sequence, persecution, sect, intrinsic, sequel, consequently, executor, dissociation, persecute, extrinsic, sequential, sequestration, dissociate, ensue, consequent, seg, segue, sequester, sequitur, 34 more

Today it means

adj Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.

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Etymograph / Latin sequor / subsequent

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