subroutine

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-der.

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?

Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti

Latin rumpō

Latin ruptus

Latin rupta

Old French rote

French route

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

French -in

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -am

Old French -e

French -e

French -ine

French routineubor.

English routine

English subroutine

From sub- + routine.

Pronunciation

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Noun

subroutine (plural subroutines)

1. (computer science) A section of code, called by the main body of a program, that implements a task.

   Synonyms: function, procedure

   Holonyms: routine, program, app, application

   Coordinate terms: utility, applet, worklet, subprocess, subtask

Derived terms

• subroutine call
• subsubroutine

Translations

a section of code

• Arabic: دَالَّة (dālla) (function), وَظِيفَة (ar) f (waẓīfa) (function)
• Armenian: ենթածրագիր (entʻacragir)
• Azerbaijani: altproqram
• Belarusian: падпрагра́ма f (padprahráma), фу́нкцыя f (fúnkcyja), працэду́ра f (pracedúra)
• Bulgarian: по́дпрограма f (pódprograma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 子程序 (zh) (zǐchéngxù), 子例程 (zǐlìchéng)

• Czech: podprogram (cs) m
• Dutch: subprogramma (nl) n
• Esperanto: proceduro (eo)
• Estonian: alamprogramm
• Finnish: aliohjelma (fi), alirutiini (fi)
• French: fonction (fr), procédure (fr), sous-routine (fr) f
• Georgian: ქვეპროგრამა (kveṗrograma)
• German: Funktion (de) f, Subroutine f, Unterroutine f, Prozedur (de) f, Unterprogramm n
• Greek: διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía), υπορουτίνα (el) f (yporoutína), υποπρόγραμμα (el) n (ypoprógramma)
• Hebrew: תת־שגרה f (tat-shigrá)
• Hungarian: függvény (hu) (function)
• Icelandic: undirforrit n
• Italian: sottoprogramma (it) m, subroutine f
• Japanese: サブルーチン (ja) (saburūchin), 関数 (ja) (かんすう, kansū) (function)
• Korean: 함수(函數) (ko) (hamsu) (function), 서브루틴 (seobeurutin)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
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• Macedonian: потпрограма f (potprograma)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تابِع (tâbe') (function)

• Polish: podprogram m
• Portuguese: sub-rotina (pt) f
• Romanian: subrutină (ro) f
• Russian: подпрогра́мма (ru) f (podprográmma), фу́нкция (ru) f (fúnkcija), процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потпро̀грам m

  Latin: potprògram (sh) m

• Slovak: podprogram m
• Slovene: podprogram m
• Spanish: subrutina (es) f
• Swedish: subrutin c
• Thai: ซับรูทีน
• Turkish: alt program (tr), alt rutin (tr), alt yordam (tr)
• Ukrainian: підпрогра́ма f (pidprohráma), фу́нкція f (fúnkcija), процеду́ра (uk) f (procedúra)
• Vietnamese: chương trình con

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English subroutine.

Noun

subroutine f (invariable)

1. (computing) subroutine