![]() The prefix is active in Modern English, sometimes meaning "subordinate" (as in subcontractor) "inferior" (17c., as in subhuman) "smaller" (18c.) "a part or division of" (c. to consider or include (an idea, term, etc.) as being part of a more general one: You can subsume vegetables, meats, and grains under the broader category of food. The original meaning is now obscured in many words from Latin ( suggest, suspect, subject, etc.). In Old French the prefix appears in the full Latin form only "in learned adoptions of old Latin compounds", and in popular use it was represented by sous-, sou- as in French souvenir from Latin subvenire, souscrire (Old French souzescrire) from subscribere, etc. In Latin assimilated to following -c-, -f-, -g-, -p-, and often -r- and -m. The women's athletic department will be subsumed under the men's.Word-forming element meaning "under, beneath behind from under resulting from further division," from Latin preposition sub "under, below, beneath, at the foot of," also "close to, up to, towards " of time, "within, during " figuratively "subject to, in the power of " also "a little, somewhat" (as in sub-horridus "somewhat rough"), from PIE *(s)up- (perhaps representing *ex-upo-), a variant form of the root *upo "under," also "up from under." The Latin word also was used as a prefix and in various combinations.subsume somebody/something under something Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation.States collect taxes and subsume many of the responsibilities of governing from the county. ![]()
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