Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subproper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-prop-er
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having some of the key characteristics of the proper property (which ones depend on the type of proper property).

Example Sentences

"An object can have several subproper centers or none at all. Figure 2 shows the proper center and some subproper centers for the letter E."
"The author establishes some basic properties and two surjectivity theorems for subproper operators."
"Obviously, each perfect mapping is a proper mapping, each proper mapping is a subproper mapping and each subproper mapping is a compact-covering mapping."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Italic *prijos Proto-Italic *proprijos Latin propriusbor. Anglo-Norman proprebor. Middle English propre English proper English subproper From sub- + proper.

Questions

What does subproper mean?: Having some of the key characteristics of the proper property (which ones depend on the type of proper property).
Where does subproper come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Italic *prijos Proto-Italic *proprijos Latin propriusbor. Anglo-Norman proprebor. Middle English propre English proper English subproper From sub- + proper.

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