Etymograph

English

subsort

From sub- + sort.

Formed from sub- + sort

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

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *ser- ‘to bind’

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Latin sors ‘lot’

Latin sortem

Old French sorte ‘class’

Middle English sort

English sort

Today it means

verb To sort a subset of already sorted elements (by some secondary criterion).

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “subsort”. 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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