suboles

Latin

Alternative forms

• sobolēs

Etymology

From sub- + *olēs (“growth”).

Noun

subolēs f (genitive subolis); third declension

1. (botany) shoot, sucker
2. offspring, race, progeny

   Synonyms: prōsāpia, stirps, prōlēs, prōgeniēs

3. baby, infant, child
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.327–328:

     “Saltem sī qua mihī dē tē suscepta fuisset
     ante fugam subolēs, [...].”

     “At least, if somehow – before [your] flight – a child, by you, were to have been begotten to me, [...].”

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	subolēs	subolēs
genitive	subolis	subolum
dative	subolī	subolibus
accusative	subolem	subolēs
ablative	subole	subolibus
vocative	subolēs	subolēs

References

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