suboles

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From sub- + *olēs (“growth”).

Noun

subolēs f (genitive subolis); third declension

  1. (botany) shoot, sucker
  2. offspring, race, progeny
    Synonyms: prōsāpia, stirps, prōlēs, prōgeniēs
  3. 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 [your] flight – a child, by you, were to have been begotten to me, [...].”

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative subolēs subolēs
genitive subolis subolum
dative subolī subolibus
accusative subolem subolēs
ablative subole subolibus
vocative subolēs subolēs

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.
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