underset

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To set under or beneath.
2. To prop or support.

Noun

undercurrent (of water)

Synonyms

undertow

ocean undercurrent

Translations

rerafons

Unterströmung

Unterton

connotation

ressac

courant de fond

courant sous-marin

connotazione

ondersteunen

fons

hons

corriente submarina

voz baja

donuk renk

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: undersetten

Inherited from Old English: undersettan

Cognate with Dutch: ondersetten

Cognate with German: untersetzen

In summary

From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”).