subicio
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From sub- (“under, beneath; at the foot of; close to”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /subˈji.ki.oː/, [s̠ʊbˈjekioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /subˈji.t͡ʃi.o/, [subˈjiːt͡ʃiɔ]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /suˈbi.ki.oː/, [s̠ʊˈbɪkioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /suˈbi.t͡ʃi.o/, [suˈbiːt͡ʃiɔ]
VerbEdit
subiciō (present infinitive subicere, perfect active subiēcī, supine subiectum); third conjugation iō-variant
- I throw, lay, place or bring under or near
- I subdue
- I prompt, propose, suggest
- I subject, submit
- I supply
- I substitute
- (by extension) I forge, counterfeit (having that same connotative sense of substituting fake currency or documents for real ones)
Usage notesEdit
- In post-Augustan poetry the first syllable of verb forms was generally made light.
ConjugationEdit
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DescendantsEdit
- English: subject
ReferencesEdit
- subicio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- subicio in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- subicio in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
- 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