Latin

Verb

sūbiciō ‎(present infinitive sūbicere, perfect active sūbiēcī, supine sūbiectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I throw, lay, place or bring under or near.
2. I supply.
3. I forge, counterfeit.
4. I subject, submit.
5. I prompt, propose.

Usage notes

• In pre-Augustan and Augustan poetry, the first syllable of verb forms was sometimes marked long by poets, but this was generally shortened by post-Augustan poets.

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Descendants

• English: subject

References

• subicio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• subicio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “subicio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
    
  • to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
    
  • to give a general idea of a thing: sub unum aspectum subicere aliquid
    
  • to produce a false will: testamentum subicere, supponere
    
  • to make oneself master of a people, country: populum, terram suo imperio, suae potestati subicere (not sibi by itself)
    
  • to make one's submission to some one: se imperio alicuius subicere (not alicui)
    
  • (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)