Other forms: subscribed, subscribing, subscribes
To subscribe is to sign up for regular content or service. Subscribe to the newsletter, subscribe monthly, cancel your subscription.
It once meant paying for a periodical and now covers software, streaming and almost everything else, since the subscription model has spread to things that used to be bought once. To subscribe to a view means to hold it: I do not subscribe to that theory. Note that the word means literally to write underneath, from signing your name at the foot of a document.
1verbsubscribeTo sign up for regular content or service.
“I subscribe to a cooking magazine that arrives every month.”
2verbholdTo hold a view or belief.
“I don't subscribe to the idea that money brings happiness.”
subscribe is a signing up.
Latin subscribere is sub plus scribere, to write — to write underneath. Script, describe and manuscript come from the same writing, and the English equivalent is underwrite.
Latin
subscrībō
Middle English
subscriben
English, today
subscribe
From Middle English subscriben, from Latin subscrībō. From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībō (“write beneath”). by surface analysis, sub- + scribe. Compare its native English - equivalent underwrite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA