Etymograph

English

submargin

From sub- + margin.

Formed from sub- + margin

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs ‘boundary, border’

Latin margō ‘edge, brink, border, margin’

Latin marginem

Middle English margyn ‘the edge of a page’

English margin

Today it means

noun An area parallel to a margin but slightly further in.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “submargin”. 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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