subter
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The accusative from instrumental/ablative and accusative is from *-teros used adverbially. The ablative is by analogy with sub.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsub.ter/, [ˈs̠ʊpt̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsub.ter/, [ˈsubt̪er]
Adverb[edit]
subter (not comparable)
- down below, underneath
- Supra et subter. ― Up above and down below.
Related terms[edit]
Preposition[edit]
subter (+ accusative, ablative)
- (with accusative) directly below an area that is under another; underneath, (figuratively) below inferior
- Subter pineta. ― Below the pine-woods.
- c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.20:
- […] iram in pectore, cupiditatem supter praecordia locavit.
- 1877 translation by Charles Duke Yonge
- […] anger in the breast, and desire under the præcordia.
- 1877 translation by Charles Duke Yonge
- […] iram in pectore, cupiditatem supter praecordia locavit.
- (with ablative) underneath, (figuratively) below inferior
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “subter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.