subter-prefix

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin subter-.

Etymology: < classical Latin subter-, use as prefix (see note) of subter (adverb and preposition) below, underneath < sub- sub- prefix + -ter, suffix forming adverbs.Found in a number of adoptions of Latin words (from the second half of the 16th cent., earliest in the French and Latin loan subterfuge n.) and, from the end of the 16th cent., in formations within English. Some formations have antonyms in super- prefix. Combining with second elements of Latin origin. Classical Latin subter- is used in compounds with adverbial force, as in subterfluere to flow beneath (see subterfluent adj. ), and with prepositional force, as in post-classical Latin subtercutaneus lying under the skin (see subtercutaneous adj. ). It is also used in the sense ‘secretly’, as in subterfugere to flee secretly (see subterfuge n.).

Now rare.

Forming words with the senses ‘below, beneath’, ‘secretly’, or ‘lower or less than’.Many formations are either little-used adoptions of Latin compounds or are ad hoc formations (in some cases suggested by antithesis to compounds of super-). The more significant terms are treated as main entries.

† subterannuating n. Obsolete rare the placing of an event later than its actual date.

ΚΠ

1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 102 The superannuating in the business of the Councel of Dort, (a subterannuating call'd in the true sense of the thing).

subter-brutish adj.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbtəˈbruːtɪʃ/

U.S.

/ˌsəbtərˈbrudɪʃ/

rare beneath (that of) the lower animals.

ΚΠ

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. viii. 20/1 O subter-brutish! vile! most vile!

1902 L. Josaphare Turquoise & Iron 67 Supernal praise of subter-brutish bent, Can vaunt, but move no angel to admire.

† subter-celestial adj. [after supercelestial adj.] Obsolete rare below the heavens.

ΚΠ

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 253 By the Fiat of the Almighty the subter-celestial waters were separated from the super~celestial.

subter-conscious adj.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbtəˈkɒnʃəs/

U.S.

/ˌsəbtərˈkɑnʃəs/

= subconscious adj. and n.

ΚΠ

1856 W. Bagehot in Nat. Rev. July 157 There is a kind of eruption of ideas from a subter-conscious world.

1911 A. B. S. Tennyson Portentous Hist. ii. xxiv. 120 The subter-conscious Jim was already aware that no ordinary doom awaited him. Sometimes in dreams and even in his waking dreams he recalled the Homeric battle between Euphemia and Mrs. Findlater.

† subtercubant n. [ < subter- prefix + classical Latin cubant-, cubāns, present participle of cubāre to lie down (see cubation n.¹)] Obsolete rare (perhaps) a person who belongs to an underclass.

ΚΠ

1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe in Wks. (1885) III. 69 The..grand Commander of all the superrants & subtercubants of Englands great Metropolis.

† subtercutaneous adj. [ < post-classical Latin subtercutaneus (4th cent.) + -ous suffix] Obsolete rare = subcutaneous adj.

ΚΠ

1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 9 There are seven Species of this Maul: The moist, the dry, the subtercutaneous, the articular [etc.].

† subterduction n. [compare classical Latin subterdūcere to move quietly or surreptitiously] Obsolete rare an act of carrying away secretly.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subterduction, a private stealing or leading away.

† subtererogation n. [ < subter- prefix + -erogation (in supererogation n.)] Obsolete the performance of less than is required.

ΚΠ

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. ix. 346 It is certaine that Supererogation there can be none, though praetererogation we should graunt you, howbeit subtererogation were the fitter word.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xv. 104 If a man could in all things keepe the whole Law,..then hee might happely Supererogate:..till then, that wee meete with such perfect liuers, wee may conclude rather for subtererogation, than supererogation.

† subteretherial adj. [ < subter- prefix + ethereal adj.] Obsolete rare beneath or below the ethereal or heavenly realm; subcelestial.

ΚΠ

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. iii. 456 The Subter-Ætherial Globe.

subterfluent adj.

Brit.

/sʌbˈtəːflʊənt/

U.S.

/ˌsəbˈtərflʊənt/

[ < classical Latin subterfluent-, subterfluēns, present participle of subterfluere to flow below or under < subter- subter- prefix + fluere to flow (see fluent adj.); compare earlier subterfluous adj.] rare flowing or running underneath.

ΚΠ

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Subterfluent, running under.

1823 Gentlemen's Mag. May 399/1 The level is no doubt preserved by a proportionate discharge..which must necessarily become a subterfluent current.

2004 Hist. Jrnl. 47 766 The..indiscriminate manner in which the anti-communist programmes were implemented,..created a strong subterfluent current of peasant resentment against the regime.

subterfluous adj.

Brit.

/sʌbˈtəːflʊəs/

U.S.

/ˌsəbˈtərfləwəs/

[ < subter- prefix + -fluous (in superfluous adj.)] flowing or running underneath.

ΚΠ

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subterfluous, which runs or flows under.

1753 J. Buchanan Compl. Eng. Scholar iii. i. ii. 497 What signifies subter? A. It signifies under, as subter-fluous, i.e. flowing under.

1847 Odd Fellows' Mag. Apr. 293 It [sc. a stream] suddenly dashed itself headlong into a subterranean cavern..and, after continuing its subterfluous vagaries for upwards of a mile, just as suddenly emerged into daylight again.

1974 Poetry Feb. 302 This leafy, streamless land where coy waters loiter Under the embroidered soil, subterfluous coin Of another culture destroyed by lack of moisture.

subterhuman adj.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbtəˈhjuːmən/

U.S.

/ˌsəbtərˈ(h)jumən/

below what is human; less than human.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > [adjective] > below what is human

subterhuman1833

infrahuman1847

1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 135/1 He were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman.

1936 S. Sitwell Dance of Quick & Dead vi. 395 The rain strikes hard. It is expressed in symbols that are subterhuman, infinitely small.

† subterjacent adj. [ < post-classical Latin subteriacent-, subteriacens, present participle of subteriacere to lie underneath (6th cent.) < classical Latin subter- subter- prefix + iacēre to lie (see jacent adj.)] Obsolete underlying, subjacent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under

underlaida1100

subjected?a1425

suppositivec1475

subject?1541

subjacent1598

subterjacent1598

underlying1611

subjunct1639

supposite1640

suppedaneous1646

subordinate1648

subdititious1657

substrated1663

succumbent1664

subtended1670

substrate1678

subadjacent1722

supposed1766

subtending1777

substrative1823

underset1845

infraposed1854

substant1883

underneath1894

underlappingc1900

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 25/2 As then not parte of the corrosive fall on any of the subteriacent partes.

1692 J. Flamsteed Let. 27 Sept. in Corr. (1997) II. 471 Where ever it [sc. an earthquake] fires the Niter in our aire it may cause a vast explossion and expansion of it whereby its pressure on the subterjacent places may become less than at other time[s].

1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. III. 29 A delightful prospect over the subterjacent plain.

1851 T. Burbidge Hours & Days 69 Our poor soil, the rock unkind Of the obdurate worldly mind, Thrills ever to the restless sleep Of Passion's subterjacent deep.

† subterlapsarian adj. Obsolete of or relating to a view of redemption which holds that there is sufficient grace for all, but only some are decreed to be saved.Apparently an isolated use. [Apparently < subter- prefix + -lapsarian (in sublapsarian adj., Infralapsarian adj.). N.E.D. (1914) suggests that the word was ‘properly *subtersublapsarian ’, but there is no evidence to support this suggestion. It is likely that Fairbairn intended the word as a synonym for sublapsarian adj.]

ΚΠ

1893 A. M. Fairbairn Place Christ in Mod. Theol. i. viii. 173 The Subterlapsarian School [sc. of Saumur], which had hypothetical universalism as its note.

† subtermarine n. Obsolete a person who works under the sea.

ΚΠ

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xi. 266 A diver's wreck, where an armoured livid subtermarine, a monstrous puff-ball of man, wandered seriously light in heaviness.

subtersensual adj.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnsjʊəl/

/ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnsjᵿl/

/ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnʃʊəl/

/ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnʃ(ᵿ)l/

U.S.

/ˌsəbtərˈsɛn(t)ʃəwəl/

= subsensual adj.

ΚΠ

1860 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 509/1 We are conscious of a certain remoteness in his [sc. Hawthorne's] writings, as in those of Donne, but with such a difference that we should call the one super- and the other subter-sensual.

1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. xii. 219 To pursue the thing would be to enter the subtersensual perfumed caverns of a Romance of Fashionable Life.

1922 H. G. Hutchinson Fortn. Club iv. 45 This idea of communication by channels supra- or subter-sensual with something that neither our senses nor our intellects can reveal to us is a very old story.

subtersensuous adj.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnsjʊəs/

/ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnʃʊəs/

U.S.

/ˌsəbtərˈsɛn(t)ʃəwəs/

rare = subsensuous adj.

ΚΠ

1878 P. W. Wyatt Hardrada 43 Sailing on one vast subtersensuous greed Their smuggling life-craft ply.

2002 This Day (Nigeria) (Nexis) 28 Feb. Any right-thinking man who strings these claims together will see them for what they are—hogwash, subtersensuous and preposterous.

† subter-superlative n. Obsolete (an expression conveying) a degree lower than an ordinary superlative of inferiority.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] > very

subter-superlative1655

terrible1775

third-rate1814

ternary1826

tenth-rate1834

No. Ten1880

tenth-remove1905

awful1916

raggedy1921

stinko1924

piss-poor1945

number ten1953

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 271 The Apostles words of himself, who am lesse than the least of all saints... As I may say, a subter-subterlative [sic] in his humility.

1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence iii. 18 Because he was Ελαχισ[τ]ότερος, (and if there be a more subter-superlative) the least of the least of his brethren.

† subtersurface adj. [compare subsurface adj.] Obsolete lying below the surface, subsurface.

ΚΠ

1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 322 He never fails to sink to the subtersurface level of Joseph Hume.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	subter-
释义	subter-prefix Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin subter-. Etymology: < classical Latin subter-, use as prefix (see note) of subter (adverb and preposition) below, underneath < sub- sub- prefix + -ter, suffix forming adverbs.Found in a number of adoptions of Latin words (from the second half of the 16th cent., earliest in the French and Latin loan subterfuge n.) and, from the end of the 16th cent., in formations within English. Some formations have antonyms in super- prefix. Combining with second elements of Latin origin. Classical Latin subter- is used in compounds with adverbial force, as in subterfluere to flow beneath (see subterfluent adj. ), and with prepositional force, as in post-classical Latin subtercutaneus lying under the skin (see subtercutaneous adj. ). It is also used in the sense ‘secretly’, as in subterfugere to flee secretly (see subterfuge n.). Now rare. Forming words with the senses ‘below, beneath’, ‘secretly’, or ‘lower or less than’.Many formations are either little-used adoptions of Latin compounds or are ad hoc formations (in some cases suggested by antithesis to compounds of super-). The more significant terms are treated as main entries. † subterannuating n. Obsolete rare the placing of an event later than its actual date. ΚΠ 1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 102 The superannuating in the business of the Councel of Dort, (a subterannuating call'd in the true sense of the thing). subter-brutish adj. Brit. /ˌsʌbtəˈbruːtɪʃ/ , U.S. /ˌsəbtərˈbrudɪʃ/ rare beneath (that of) the lower animals. ΚΠ 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. viii. 20/1 O subter-brutish! vile! most vile! 1902 L. Josaphare Turquoise & Iron 67 Supernal praise of subter-brutish bent, Can vaunt, but move no angel to admire. † subter-celestial adj. [after supercelestial adj.] Obsolete rare below the heavens. ΚΠ 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 253 By the Fiat of the Almighty the subter-celestial waters were separated from the super~celestial. subter-conscious adj. Brit. /ˌsʌbtəˈkɒnʃəs/ , U.S. /ˌsəbtərˈkɑnʃəs/ = subconscious adj. and n. ΚΠ 1856 W. Bagehot in Nat. Rev. July 157 There is a kind of eruption of ideas from a subter-conscious world. 1911 A. B. S. Tennyson Portentous Hist. ii. xxiv. 120 The subter-conscious Jim was already aware that no ordinary doom awaited him. Sometimes in dreams and even in his waking dreams he recalled the Homeric battle between Euphemia and Mrs. Findlater. † subtercubant n. [ < subter- prefix + classical Latin cubant-, cubāns, present participle of cubāre to lie down (see cubation n.¹)] Obsolete rare (perhaps) a person who belongs to an underclass. ΚΠ 1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe in Wks. (1885) III. 69 The..grand Commander of all the superrants & subtercubants of Englands great Metropolis. † subtercutaneous adj. [ < post-classical Latin subtercutaneus (4th cent.) + -ous suffix] Obsolete rare = subcutaneous adj. ΚΠ 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 9 There are seven Species of this Maul: The moist, the dry, the subtercutaneous, the articular [etc.]. † subterduction n. [compare classical Latin subterdūcere to move quietly or surreptitiously] Obsolete rare an act of carrying away secretly.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subterduction, a private stealing or leading away. † subtererogation n. [ < subter- prefix + -erogation (in supererogation n.)] Obsolete the performance of less than is required. ΚΠ 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. ix. 346 It is certaine that Supererogation there can be none, though praetererogation we should graunt you, howbeit subtererogation were the fitter word. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xv. 104 If a man could in all things keepe the whole Law,..then hee might happely Supererogate:..till then, that wee meete with such perfect liuers, wee may conclude rather for subtererogation, than supererogation. † subteretherial adj. [ < subter- prefix + ethereal adj.] Obsolete rare beneath or below the ethereal or heavenly realm; subcelestial. ΚΠ 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. iii. 456 The Subter-Ætherial Globe. subterfluent adj. Brit. /sʌbˈtəːflʊənt/ , U.S. /ˌsəbˈtərflʊənt/ [ < classical Latin subterfluent-, subterfluēns, present participle of subterfluere to flow below or under < subter- subter- prefix + fluere to flow (see fluent adj.); compare earlier subterfluous adj.] rare flowing or running underneath. ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Subterfluent, running under. 1823 Gentlemen's Mag. May 399/1 The level is no doubt preserved by a proportionate discharge..which must necessarily become a subterfluent current. 2004 Hist. Jrnl. 47 766 The..indiscriminate manner in which the anti-communist programmes were implemented,..created a strong subterfluent current of peasant resentment against the regime. subterfluous adj. Brit. /sʌbˈtəːflʊəs/ , U.S. /ˌsəbˈtərfləwəs/ [ < subter- prefix + -fluous (in superfluous adj.)] flowing or running underneath. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subterfluous, which runs or flows under. 1753 J. Buchanan Compl. Eng. Scholar iii. i. ii. 497 What signifies subter? A. It signifies under, as subter-fluous, i.e. flowing under. 1847 Odd Fellows' Mag. Apr. 293 It [sc. a stream] suddenly dashed itself headlong into a subterranean cavern..and, after continuing its subterfluous vagaries for upwards of a mile, just as suddenly emerged into daylight again. 1974 Poetry Feb. 302 This leafy, streamless land where coy waters loiter Under the embroidered soil, subterfluous coin Of another culture destroyed by lack of moisture. subterhuman adj. Brit. /ˌsʌbtəˈhjuːmən/ , U.S. /ˌsəbtərˈ(h)jumən/ below what is human; less than human. ΘΚΠ the world > people > [adjective] > below what is human subterhuman1833 infrahuman1847 1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 135/1 He were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman. 1936 S. Sitwell Dance of Quick & Dead vi. 395 The rain strikes hard. It is expressed in symbols that are subterhuman, infinitely small. † subterjacent adj. [ < post-classical Latin subteriacent-, subteriacens, present participle of subteriacere to lie underneath (6th cent.) < classical Latin subter- subter- prefix + iacēre to lie (see jacent adj.)] Obsolete underlying, subjacent. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under underlaida1100 subjected?a1425 suppositivec1475 subject?1541 subjacent1598 subterjacent1598 underlying1611 subjunct1639 supposite1640 suppedaneous1646 subordinate1648 subdititious1657 substrated1663 succumbent1664 subtended1670 substrate1678 subadjacent1722 supposed1766 subtending1777 substrative1823 underset1845 infraposed1854 substant1883 underneath1894 underlappingc1900 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 25/2 As then not parte of the corrosive fall on any of the subteriacent partes. 1692 J. Flamsteed Let. 27 Sept. in Corr. (1997) II. 471 Where ever it [sc. an earthquake] fires the Niter in our aire it may cause a vast explossion and expansion of it whereby its pressure on the subterjacent places may become less than at other time[s]. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. III. 29 A delightful prospect over the subterjacent plain. 1851 T. Burbidge Hours & Days 69 Our poor soil, the rock unkind Of the obdurate worldly mind, Thrills ever to the restless sleep Of Passion's subterjacent deep. † subterlapsarian adj. Obsolete of or relating to a view of redemption which holds that there is sufficient grace for all, but only some are decreed to be saved.Apparently an isolated use. [Apparently < subter- prefix + -lapsarian (in sublapsarian adj., Infralapsarian adj.). N.E.D. (1914) suggests that the word was ‘properly subtersublapsarian ’, but there is no evidence to support this suggestion. It is likely that Fairbairn intended the word as a synonym for sublapsarian adj.] ΚΠ 1893 A. M. Fairbairn Place Christ in Mod. Theol.* i. viii. 173 The Subterlapsarian School [sc. of Saumur], which had hypothetical universalism as its note. † subtermarine n. Obsolete a person who works under the sea. ΚΠ 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xi. 266 A diver's wreck, where an armoured livid subtermarine, a monstrous puff-ball of man, wandered seriously light in heaviness. subtersensual adj. Brit. /ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnsjʊəl/ , /ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnsjᵿl/ , /ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnʃʊəl/ , /ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnʃ(ᵿ)l/ , U.S. /ˌsəbtərˈsɛn(t)ʃəwəl/ = subsensual adj. ΚΠ 1860 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 509/1 We are conscious of a certain remoteness in his [sc. Hawthorne's] writings, as in those of Donne, but with such a difference that we should call the one super- and the other subter-sensual. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. xii. 219 To pursue the thing would be to enter the subtersensual perfumed caverns of a Romance of Fashionable Life. 1922 H. G. Hutchinson Fortn. Club iv. 45 This idea of communication by channels supra- or subter-sensual with something that neither our senses nor our intellects can reveal to us is a very old story. subtersensuous adj. Brit. /ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnsjʊəs/ , /ˌsʌbtəˈsɛnʃʊəs/ , U.S. /ˌsəbtərˈsɛn(t)ʃəwəs/ rare = subsensuous adj. ΚΠ 1878 P. W. Wyatt Hardrada 43 Sailing on one vast subtersensuous greed Their smuggling life-craft ply. 2002 This Day (Nigeria) (Nexis) 28 Feb. Any right-thinking man who strings these claims together will see them for what they are—hogwash, subtersensuous and preposterous. † subter-superlative n. Obsolete (an expression conveying) a degree lower than an ordinary superlative of inferiority. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] > very subter-superlative1655 terrible1775 third-rate1814 ternary1826 tenth-rate1834 No. Ten1880 tenth-remove1905 awful1916 raggedy1921 stinko1924 piss-poor1945 number ten1953 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 271 The Apostles words of himself, who am lesse than the least of all saints... As I may say, a subter-subterlative [sic] in his humility. 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence iii. 18 Because he was Ελαχισ[τ]ότερος, (and if there be a more subter-superlative) the least of the least of his brethren. † subtersurface adj. [compare subsurface adj.] Obsolete lying below the surface, subsurface. ΚΠ 1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 322 He never fails to sink to the subtersurface level of Joseph Hume. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < prefix1597
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