English
subtrahend
Subtrahend comes from Latin subtrahendus ‘number to be subtracted’, and goes back to trahō ‘to pull, drag’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to pull, drag’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubtrahō‘to pull out from under, to subtract’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubtrahendus‘number to be subtracted’form of subtrahō
- Englishtodaysubtrahend
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to pull, drag’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubtrahō‘to pull out from under, to subtract’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubtrahendus‘number to be subtracted’form of subtrahō
- Englishtodaysubtrahend
Equivalent to subtract + -end ‘patient (recipient) of action’
Latin subtrahō ‘to draw from beneath’
Latin subtractus ‘removed, withdrawn, subtracted, taken away’
English subtract
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- ‘to run, to drag, to pull’
draw, train, draft, drag, retreat, extraction, contraction, abstraction, draught, retract, abstractly, entreat, 47 more
through Latin trahō ‘to pull, drag’
contract, treat, attractive, portrait, attraction, abstract, extract, distraction, traction, tractor, distract, tract, trait, tram, trattoria, 32 more
through Latin subtrahō ‘to pull out from under, to subtract’
Today it means
noun A number or quantity to be subtracted from another.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trahō / subtrahend