subiectus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of subiciō (“throw under or near; supply; forge; submit; propose”).

Participle

subiectus (feminine subiecta, neuter subiectum); first/second-declension participle

1. thrown, laid, placed or brought under or near, having been thrown, laid, placed or brought under or near; adjacent
2. supplied, having been supplied
3. forged, counterfeited, having been forged or counterfeited
4. subjected, submitted, having been subjected or submitted
5. prompted, proposed, having been prompted or proposed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	subiectus	subiecta	subiectum		subiectī	subiectae	subiecta
genitive	subiectī	subiectae	subiectī		subiectōrum	subiectārum	subiectōrum
dative	subiectō	subiectae	subiectō		subiectīs
accusative	subiectum	subiectam	subiectum		subiectōs	subiectās	subiecta
ablative	subiectō	subiectā	subiectō		subiectīs
vocative	subiecte	subiecta	subiectum		subiectī	subiectae	subiecta

Noun

subiectus m (genitive subiectī); second declension

1. subject (of a monarch or ruler)

   Synonym: (medieval) subditus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	subiectus	subiectī
genitive	subiectī	subiectōrum
dative	subiectō	subiectīs
accusative	subiectum	subiectōs
ablative	subiectō	subiectīs
vocative	subiecte	subiectī

Descendants

• Galician: suxeito
• → German: Subjekt
• Italian: soggetto
• Romanian: subiect
• Old French: suget
  • → Middle English: subget
    • English: subject
  • French: sujet
    • → German: Sujet
    • → Slovak: sujet
    • → Russian: сюжет (sjužet)
      • → Kazakh: сюжет (süjet)
    • → Turkish: süje
• Piedmontese: soget
• Portuguese: sujeito
• → Sicilian: suggettu
• Spanish: sujeto

Etymology 2

From subiciō (“lay or place under or near”) +‎ -tus.

Noun

subiectus m (genitive subiectūs); fourth declension

1. a laying under

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	subiectus	subiectūs
genitive	subiectūs	subiectuum
dative	subiectuī	subiectibus
accusative	subiectum	subiectūs
ablative	subiectū	subiectibus
vocative	subiectus	subiectūs

References

• “subjectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subiectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “subiectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the world of sense, the visible world: res sensibus or oculis subiectae (De Fin. 5. 12. 36)
    
  • the species is subordinate the genus: partes generibus subiectae sunt
    
  • what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci?
    
  • subjects: qui imperio subiecti sunt
    
  • (ambiguous) the town lies at the foot of a mountain: oppidum monti subiectum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to come within the sphere of the senses: sensibus or sub sensus subiectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be comprised under the term 'fear.: sub metum subiectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: subiectum esse, obnoxium esse imperio or dicioni alicuius (not simply alicui)