subicio
Latin
Etymology
From sub- (“under, beneath; at the foot of; close to”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /subˈji.ki.oː/, [sʊbˈjɪ.ki.oː]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /suːˈbi.ki.oː/, [suːˈbɪ.ki.oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /suˈbi.t͡ʃi.o/, [suˈbiː.t͡ʃi.o]
Verb
sūbiciō (present infinitive sūbicere, perfect active sūbiēcī, supine sūbiectum); third conjugation iō-variant
- I throw, lay, place or bring under or near.
- I subdue.
- I supply.
- I forge, counterfeit.
- I subject, submit.
- I prompt, propose.
Usage notes
- In pre-Augustan and Augustan poetry, the first syllable of verb forms was sometimes marked long by poets, but this was generally shortened by post-Augustan poets.
Inflection
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Descendants
- English: subject
References
- subicio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- subicio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subicio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
- to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
- to give a general idea of a thing: sub unum aspectum subicere aliquid
- to produce a false will: testamentum subicere, supponere
- to make oneself master of a people, country: populum, terram suo imperio, suae potestati subicere (not sibi by itself)
- to make one's submission to some one: se imperio alicuius subicere (not alicui)
- (ambiguous) the town lies at the foot of a mountain: oppidum monti subiectum est
- (ambiguous) to come within the sphere of the senses: sensibus or sub sensus subiectum esse
- (ambiguous) to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
- (ambiguous) to be comprised under the term 'fear.: sub metum subiectum esse
- (ambiguous) to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: subiectum esse, obnoxium esse imperio or dicioni alicuius (not simply alicui)
- to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
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