subolēs
Meaning
- shoot, sucker
- offspring, race, progeny
- baby, infant, child
“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, ….”
29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.327–328
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
prōlēs, fīlius fīliaveChoosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Stirps · Genus · Gens · Prosapia · Posteritas · Progenies · Proles · Suboles
1. Stirps, genus, and gens, denote the race usually in an ascending line, as abstract and collective terms, for majores; whereas prosapia, progenies, propago, proles, suboles, in a descending line, as abstract and collective terms for posteri. 2. Prosapia is an antiquated solemn expression, and only to be used of ancient noble families, Cic. Univ. 11. Quintil. i. 6, 40; posteritas, the usual prosaic, progenies, a select, elevated expression, Cic. Rep. ii. 22; proles and suboles, poetical expressions, Cic. Or. iii. 38; proles denotes children, as fruits destined, as a younger race, to exist with their parents; suboles, as an after-growth, destined to supply the place of the generation that is dying off. 3. Gens (γενετή) is a political, genus (γένος), a natural race. Gens consists of families, whom the founder of states has united into a community or complex family; genus consists of species and individuals, that by their common properties belong to one and the same class of beings. (v. 307).
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | subolēs | subolēs |
| genitive | subolis sobolis | subolum sobolum |
| dative | subolī sobolī | subolibus sobolibus |
| accusative | subolem sobolem | subolēs |
| ablative | subole sobole | subolibus sobolibus |
| vocative | subolēs | subolēs |
suboles ab olescendo, id est crescendo, ut adulescentes quoque et adultae et indoles dicitur, Fest. p. 309 Müll. syn. surculus), of plants: ulmum serere ex subolibus, Col. 5, 6, 2: caepa, quae non habuit suboles adhaerentes, id. 12, 10; Plin. 17, 10, 12, § 65 et saep. —Of the hair: ex subolibus parvuli (capilli) demittebantur, Varr. ap. Non. 456, 7: cum capillus frequenti subole cumulat verticem, App. M. 2, p. 218, 36.—syn.: proles, progenies): censores populi aevitates, suboles, familias pecuniasque censento, Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 7: propagatio et suboles, id. Off. 1, 17, 54; Lucr. 4, 1232; cf.: (rex Superum) subolem priori Dissimilem populo promittit origine mirā, Ov. M. 1, 251: cara deum suboles, magnum Jovis incrementum, Verg. E. 4, 49: hem subolem sis vide! Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 102: suboles juventutis, Cic. Phil. 2, 22, 54: robur et suboles militum interiit, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 1: milites, favete nomini Scipionum, suboli imperatorum vestrorum, Liv. 26, 41, 22: fortunati patris matura suboles, id. 40, 6: stirpis, id. 39, 24: si qua mihi de te suscepta fuisset Ante fugam suboles, Verg. A. 4, 328: diva (Lucina), producas subolem, Hor. C. S. 17: Romae suboles, the race of Rome, id. C. 4, 3, 14: Archytae, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 77. Sarmatae, Medorum suboles, Plin. 6, 7, 7, § 19: haec suboles nomen habuit Epigoni, Just. 12, 4, 11: stirpem regiae subolis delere, id. 16, 1, 15. —Of the gods: per suboles subolum multiplicata semper innumerabilitas ampliatur, Arn. 3, 9 Hildebr.—Of beasts: lascivi suboles gregis, Hor. C. 3, 13, 8: capellae, Col. 7, 6, 8: armentorum, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 31.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From sub- + *olēs (“growth”).