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subicio

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Latin

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Etymology

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From sub- (under, beneath; at the foot of; close to) +‎ iaciō (throw, hurl).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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subiciō (present infinitive subicere, perfect active subiēcī, supine subiectum); third conjugation iō-variant

  1. to throw, lay, place, set or bring under or near
    Synonyms: suggerō, summittō, sufferō, suppōnō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.235–237:
      “Accingunt omnēs operī, pedibusque rotārum / subiciunt lāpsūs, et stuppea vincula collō / intendunt [...].”
      “All [the Trojans] set to work, and we place sliding rollers under the [wooden horse’s] feet, and stretch out hempen ropes to its neck.”
  2. to subdue
    Synonyms: subigō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, pācō, expugnō, domō, ēvincō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō
  3. to prompt, propose, suggest
  4. to subject, submit or subordinate a particular to a general, to range or treat it under, append it
    Synonyms: subigō, subiugō, obnoxiō
  5. to supply
  6. to substitute
    Synonyms: substituō, suppōnō, succēdō, subrogō
  7. (by extension) to forge, counterfeit (having that same connotative sense of substituting fake currency or documents for real ones)

Usage notes

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  • In post-Augustan poetry the first syllable of verb forms was generally made light.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: subject

References

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  • 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[1], 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)