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Latin
Etymology
From sub- + *olēs (“growth”).
Noun
subolēs f (genitive subolis); third declension
- (botany) shoot, sucker
- offspring, race, progeny
- Synonyms: prōsāpia, stirps, prōlēs, prōgeniēs
- baby, infant, child
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.327–328:
- “Saltem sī qua mihī dē tē suscepta fuisset
ante fugam subolēs, .”- “At least, if somehow – before flight – a child, by you, were to have been begotten to me, .”
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “suboles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suboles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suboles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.