sublunar
English
Etymology
Adjective
sublunar (not comparable)
- Situated beneath the Moon.
- Synonyms: sublunary, cislunar
- Antonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar, translunary
- 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 234:
- The City’s moon-lit spires and myriad lamps,
Like stars in a sublunar sky did glow,
And fires blazed far amid the scattered camps,
Like springs of flame, which burst where’er swift Earthquake stamps.
- Of this world; earthly.
- Synonym: sublunary
- Antonyms: otherworldly, heavenly, celestial, ethereal
Translations
beneath the Moon
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French sublunaire.
Adjective
sublunar m or n (feminine singular sublunară, masculine plural sublunari, feminine and neuter plural sublunare)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | sublunar | sublunară | sublunari | sublunare | |||
| definite | sublunarul | sublunara | sublunarii | sublunarele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | sublunar | sublunare | sublunari | sublunare | |||
| definite | sublunarului | sublunarei | sublunarilor | sublunarelor | ||||
Spanish
Adjective
sublunar m or f (masculine and feminine plural sublunares)
Further reading
- “sublunar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024