English
subaudi
Subaudi comes from Latin subaudiō ‘to understand, to supply a word’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubaudiō‘to understand, to supply a word’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubaudī
- Englishearliest quotation 1852subaudi
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubaudiō‘to understand, to supply a word’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubaudī
- Englishearliest quotation 1852subaudi
Earliest quotation: 1852, Theophylact pseud., Marriage of Ecclesiastics: “That sole remaining sense is, “the bed (let it)…”
A compound of sub ‘under’ + audiō ‘to hear, to listen’
Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’
Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’
Latin sub ‘under’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- ‘to see, perceive’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis ‘clearly, manifestly’
Proto-Italic *awizdiō ‘to hear’
Latin audiō ‘to hear, to listen’
Every English word from Latin subaudiō
Today it means
verb Mentally supply (something which has not been expressed); scilicet.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin subaudiō / subaudi