subtus

Latin

Etymology

From sub +‎ -tus. Compare intus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsub.tus/, [ˈs̠ʊpt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsub.tus/, [ˈsubt̪us]

Adverb

subtus (not comparable)

1. below, underneath, beneath

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: sum, su
  • Romanian: subt, supt, sub
• Dalmatian:
  • sote
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: sotto
  • Salentino: suttu
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: sot
  • Ladin: sot
  • Lombard: sot
  • Piedmontese: sot
  • Romansch: sut, sot, suot
  • Venetian: sóto
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: sot, sœt
  • Old French: soz (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: soto-
  • Spanish: soto-
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *subta
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Sicilian: sutta
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: sota
    • Lombard: sòta
    • Piedmontese: sota
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: sota-
    • Catalan: sota
      • → Portuguese: sota
      • → Spanish: sota, sota-
    • Occitan: sota
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: suta
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *subtulus
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan:

      Balear: sòtil

      Valencian: sòtol

    • Old Occitan: sotol
      • Gascon: sòtou
      • Languedocien: sòtol
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: sotoo, sotão
      • Galician: sotao, soto, sóton
      • Portuguese: sótão, soto
    • Old Spanish: sótalo
      • Spanish: sótano

References

• “subtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• subtus 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)
• subtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.