Preposition
sub (+ accusative, ablative)
- (with ablative)
- under, beneath
- behind
- at the feet of
- within, during
- about, around (time); just before, just after, shortly before, shortly after
- (with accusative)
- under, up to, up under, close to (of a motion)
- until, before, up to, about
Descendants
- Old Leonese: sob
- Old Galician-Portuguese: sob
- Galician: so
- Portuguese: sob
- Old Spanish: so
- Spanish: so (in certain fossilized expressions)
- → English: sub
References
- “sub”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sub”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "sub", 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)
- sub in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- at the foot of the mountain: sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte
- in the open air: sub divo
- to come within the sphere of the senses: sub sensum or sub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
- to come within the sphere of the senses: sensibus or sub sensus subiectum esse
- to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
- to be comprised under the term 'fear.: sub metum subiectum esse
- to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
- graphic depiction: rerum sub aspectum paene subiectio (De Or. 3. 53. 202)
- to give a general idea of a thing: sub unum aspectum subicere aliquid
- to sell a prisoner of war as a slave: aliquem sub corona vendere (B. G. 3. 16)
- the case is still undecided: adhuc sub iudice lis est (Hor. A. P. 77)
- to occupy the foot of a hill: considere sub monte (sub montis radicibus)
- the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
- to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: sub imperio et dicione alicuius esse