subitus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of subeō.

Pronunciation

Participle

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

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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 tragically before her day , and she had been inflamed by a sudden madness, .
  2. unexpected

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • 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