Etymograph

English

subnode

From sub- + node.

Formed from sub- + node

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Latin nōdus ‘a knot (in rope)’

Middle English node ‘knot, tie’

English node

Today it means

noun A node within another node of a network or element in a data structure.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “subnode”. 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 / subnode