Etymograph

English

subcountable

From sub- + countable.

A compound of sub- + countable

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Latin putus

…

Latin computō ‘to calculate, compute, reckon together’

Anglo-Norman counter

Middle English counten ‘to count’

Middle English countable

English countable

Today it means

adj Being the target (codomain) of a partial surjection from the natural numbers.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “subcountable”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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