English
subfaculty
From sub- + faculty.
Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’
Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’
Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’
English sub-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
…
Latin facilitas ‘easiness, facility, etc’
Latin facultas ‘capability, ability, skill, abundance,…’
Old French faculte
Middle English faculte ‘power, property’
English faculty
Today it means
noun A subordinate or secondary faculty.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “subfaculty”. 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.
Etymograph / subfaculty