subitus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of subeō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʊ.bɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.bi.tus]

Participle

subitus (feminine subita, neuter subitum); first/second-declension participle

1. approached
2. succeeded
3. occurred
4. undergone

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	subitus	subita	subitum		subitī	subitae	subita
genitive	subitī	subitae	subitī		subitōrum	subitārum	subitōrum
dative	subitō	subitae	subitō		subitīs
accusative	subitum	subitam	subitum		subitōs	subitās	subita
ablative	subitō	subitā	subitō		subitīs
vocative	subite	subita	subitum		subitī	subitae	subita

Adjective

subitus (feminine subita, neuter subitum, adverb subitō); first/second-declension adjective

1. sudden
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.697:

     [...] sed misera ante diem, subitōque accēnsa furōre, [...].

     [...] but [since Dido was dying] tragically before her day [had come], and she had been inflamed by a sudden madness, [...].

2. unexpected

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	subitus	subita	subitum		subitī	subitae	subita
genitive	subitī	subitae	subitī		subitōrum	subitārum	subitōrum
dative	subitō	subitae	subitō		subitīs
accusative	subitum	subitam	subitum		subitōs	subitās	subita
ablative	subitō	subitā	subitō		subitīs
vocative	subite	subita	subitum		subitī	subitae	subita

Derived terms

• subitāneus

Related terms

• subito

Descendants

• Catalan: sobte
• → Dutch: subiet, sebiet
• → English: subitize
• → Esperanto: subita
• → French: subit
• → Istriot: soûbito
• → Italian: subito
• → Portuguese: súbito
• → Romanian: subit
• → Sicilian: sùbbitu
• → Spanish: súbito, súpito
• → Venetan: sùito

References

• “subitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "subitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “subitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be cut off by sudden death: subita morte exstingui
    
  • an extempore speech: oratio subita
    
  • the house suddenly fell in ruins: domus subita ruina collapsa est