Suburban

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Middle English: from Old French suburbe or Latin suburbium, from sub- ‘near to’ + urbs, urb- ‘city’.


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From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub-(“under”) + urbs(“city”) + -anus(“adjective suffix”).


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suburban (adj.)

1620s, from suburb + -an. Somewhat earlier were suburbian, suburbial (c. 1600). Latin had suburbanus "near the city" (of Rome), and in Church Latin suburbicarian was applied to the six diocese near Rome.