SUB, a Latin preposition, denoting under or below, used in English as a prefix, to express a subordinate degree. Before f and p it is changed into those letters, as in suffer, and suppose; and before m, into that letter, as in summon.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.