Etymograph

English

subdelegate

From sub- + delegate.

Formed from sub- + delegate

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Italic *lēks ‘law’

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Latin nominative

Latin dēlēgātus

Old French delegat

Middle English delegat

English delegate

Today it means

verb To delegate (a task already delegated to oneself) to somebody else.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “subdelegate”. 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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