subsidiary English · revision 15067

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1543|origins=la subsidium}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /səbˈsɪd.i.ər.i/, US /səbˈsɪd.i.er.i/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|subsidiārius|t=serving to assist or supplement, of a reserve]], perhaps partly through [[frm|subsidiaire]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) from [[m|la|subsidium|t=help, aid, troops in reserve]] (see [[subsidy]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) The Latin adjective was also used as a noun for the reserve.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Serving to help or supplement, held in reserve: 1543.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The levying of a subsidy is recorded in 1592,^(Barnhart 1988) and the noun, a person or thing that supplies help, from 1603, in Florio's Montaigne.^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) Consisting of subsidies is from 1608, and the subsidiary treaty from 1755.^(OED 1989) The sense subordinate or secondary is first recorded in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1831).^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) Of a stream it meant tributary from 1834.^(OED 1989) A subsidiary company is controlled by another.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1543 – serving to help.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1603 – a subsidiary (noun).^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)

+ * 1755 – subsidiary treaty.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1831 – subordinate, secondary.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1834 – of a stream, tributary.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Serving to assist or supplement; [[auxiliary]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Secondary in importance; subordinate.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Of or like a [[subsidy]].^(AHD)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A person or thing that is subsidiary to another.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A company controlled by another company.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(music)'' A theme subordinate to the main one.^(AHD)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subsidiarily]]

+ * [[subsidiariness]]

+ * [[nonsubsidiary]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[subsidiarity]]

+ * [[subsidy]]

+ * [[subside]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}