subsum
English
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsub.sum/, [ˈs̠ʊps̠ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsub.sum/, [ˈsubsum]
Verb
subsum (present infinitive subesse, perfect active subfuī, future participle subfutūrus); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle
- (intransitive) to be under, among or behind
- 1361 November 19, “Lübeck an Reval: theilt die Aug. 1 zu Greifswald von den Seestädten gefassten Beschlüsse mit”, in Hanserecesse, volumes I Die Recesse und andere Akten der Hansetage von 1256–1430, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, published 1870, page 193:
- Petimus eciam non haberi pro ingrato, quod premissa non prius fecimus vobis intimari; causa suffuit, quod hujusmodi tribulacio mercatoribus evenit ita repentino, quod vestri presenciam ad hoc non poterant habere commodose.
- We pray also that it will not be deemed ungrateful that the aforesent matters have not been intimated by us before; the underlying cause was (lit. the cause underlay) that a trouble of this kind went out so sudden to the merchants that they could not have your presence without inconvenience.
- (intransitive) to be at the bottom
- Synonym: cedo
- (intransitive) to be nearby
Usage notes
- The perfect and future participle forms are non-Classical.
Conjugation
References
- “subsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- winter is at hand: hiems subest
- winter is at hand: hiems subest
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