Etymograph

English

subatlantic

From sub- + Atlantic.

Formed from sub- + Atlantic

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Ancient Greek Ἄτλᾱς

Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντικός ‘Atlantean, of Atlas’

Latin Ā̆tlanticus

Middle English Atlantyke

English Atlantic

Today it means

adj Subsidiary or secondary to the Atlantic Ocean.

Sources

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