subitus

Perfect passive participle of subeō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.bi.tus/, [ˈs̠ʊbɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.bi.tus/, [ˈsuːbit̪us]

subitus (feminine subita, neuter subitum); first/second-declension participle

1. approached
2. succeeded
3. occurred
4. undergone

First/second-declension adjective.

subitus (feminine subita, neuter subitum, adverb subitō); first/second-declension adjective

1. sudden
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.697:

     [...] sed misera ante diem, subitōque accēnsa furōre, [...].

     [...] but [since Dido was dying] tragically before her day [had come], and she had been inflamed by a sudden madness, [...].

2. unexpected

First/second-declension adjective.

• subitāneus

• subito

• “subitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• subitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• subitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be cut off by sudden death: subita morte exstingui
    
  • an extempore speech: oratio subita
    
  • the house suddenly fell in ruins: domus subita ruina collapsa est