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Subtract

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to take one number or amount away from another
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Stage 1 of 2
subtrahere
Latin · ancient
"to draw from under"
to draw from under, from sub- (under) and trahere (to draw)
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Stage 2 of 2
subtract
English · 1400s
"to take one number or amount away from another"
settled as the English word for taking one number away from another
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