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Latin
Etymology
From sub- (“under, beneath; at the foot of; close to”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”).
Pronunciation
Verb
subiciō (present infinitive subicere, perfect active subiēcī, supine subiectum); third conjugation iō-variant
- 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 set to work, and we place sliding rollers under the feet, and stretch out hempen ropes to its neck.”
- to subdue
- Synonyms: subigō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, pācō, expugnō, domō, ēvincō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō
- to prompt, propose, suggest
- to subject, submit or subordinate a particular to a general, to range or treat it under, append it
- Synonyms: subigō, subiugō, obnoxiō
- to supply
- to substitute
- Synonyms: substituō, suppōnō, succēdō, subrogō
- (by extension) to forge, counterfeit (having that same connotative sense of substituting fake currency or documents for real ones)
Usage notes
- In post-Augustan poetry the first syllable of verb forms was generally made light.
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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)