English

subsewer

From sub- + sewer.

Formed from sub- + sewer

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Vulgar Latin *exaquāria ‘drain for carrying water off’

Old French sewiere ‘overflow channel for a fishpond’

Anglo-Norman sewere ‘water-course’

Middle English sewer

English sewer

Today it means

noun A lesser or subsidiary sewer (drainage system).

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

Etymograph / subsewer