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Subscribe

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to arrange to regularly receive a publication or service, or to express agreement
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Stage 1 of 2
subscribere
Latin · ancient
"to write underneath, to sign"
to write underneath, to sign, from sub- (under) and scribere (to write)
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Stage 2 of 2
subscribe
English · 1400s
"to sign one's agreement, or to arrange to receive something regularly"
settled as the English word for signing one's agreement, or arranging to receive something regularly
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