adverb
subitō
subitō (not comparable)
Classical[ˈsʊ.bɪ.toː]Ecclesiastical[ˈsuː.bi.to]
№ 848 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablesuddenly
Subitō mālum cecidit dē arbore.
Suddenly, an apple fell from the tree.
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
sine signō, celeriter et nōn exspectātum.subitō adv. — in Mille Verba, Tempus et Numerī
sine morā, statimsubitō — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 1
suddenly
subitō — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 18, 19 and Seneca, ch. V
sŭbĭtō, adv., v. subeo,
I. P. a. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
subitō adv.
subitus, suddenly, immediately, unexpectedly, at once, off-hand : subito tanta te impendent mala, T.: subito atque inproviso: ex oculis fugit, V.: nostras ad aurīs venire, O.: quod serenā nocte subito luna defecisset: opprimi, L.: dicere, extempore : tam subito copias contrahere, so quickly , N.
Origins
Via the meaning "coming up closely, sneaking up suddenly".
In English words that came into English from subitō
- subitivesubitō