- Word Parts
|part of speech:
||an area of land divided into lots for building and development.
||any part resulting from subdividing.
||the act, fact, or process of subdividing.
||affiliate, branch, bureau, chapter, department, development, fraction, partition, piece, topic
The word subdivision
contains the following part:
that means under, after
More about this word part:
The prefix sub-
was a Latin preposition and prefix and occurs in English in Latin loanwords, such as subjugate
. It is also used in the formation of English words such as subway
. It has multiple forms, as the 'b' sound in sub-
assimilates to the initial sound of the base to which it is attached. See the assimilated forms suc-
, and su-
- hyp-, hypo-, under-
- super-, supra-, hyper-