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Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of subiciō (“throw under or near; supply; forge; submit; propose”).
Participle
subiectus (feminine subiecta, neuter subiectum); first/second-declension participle
- thrown, laid, placed or brought under or near, having been thrown, laid, placed or brought under or near; adjacent
- supplied, having been supplied
- forged, counterfeited, having been forged or counterfeited
- subjected, submitted, having been subjected or submitted
- prompted, proposed, having been prompted or proposed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
subiectus m (genitive subiectī); second declension
- subject (of a monarch or ruler)
- Synonym: (medieval) subditus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
From subiciō (“lay or place under or near”) + -tus.
Noun
subiectus m (genitive subiectūs); fourth declension
- a laying under
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “subjectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subiectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subiectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the world of sense, the visible world: res sensibus or oculis subiectae (De Fin. 5. 12. 36)
- the species is subordinate the genus: partes generibus subiectae sunt
- what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci?
- subjects: qui imperio subiecti sunt
- (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)