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English
Etymology
From Latin subiaceō (“lie beneath”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
subjacent (comparative more subjacent, superlative most subjacent)
- Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 194–5:Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies.
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French
Adjective
subjacent (feminine subjacente, masculine plural subjacents, feminine plural subjacentes)
- subjacent
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Latin
Verb
subjacent
- third-person plural present active indicative of subjaceō