assistant vs subalternate

assistant

adj
  • Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. 

  • Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. 

noun
  • A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program. 

  • Sales assistant. 

  • A person who assists or helps someone else. 

subalternate

adj
  • Subaltern; inferior; subordinate. 

  • Succeeding by turns; successive. 

noun
  • A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. 

How often have the words assistant and subalternate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )