subicio

From sub- (“under, beneath; at the foot of; close to”) +‎ iaciō (“throw, hurl”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /subˈi̯i.ki.oː/, [s̠ʊbˈi̯ɪkioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /subˈji.t͡ʃi.o/, [subˈjiːt͡ʃio]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suˈbi.ki.oː/, [s̠ʊˈbɪkioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suˈbi.t͡ʃi.o/, [suˈbiːt͡ʃio]

subiciō (present infinitive subicere, perfect active subiēcī, supine subiectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. to throw, lay, place, set or bring under or near

   Synonyms: suggerō, summittō, sufferō, suppōnō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.235–237:

     “Accingunt omnēs operī, pedibusque rotārum / subiciunt lāpsūs, et stuppea vincula collō / intendunt [...].”

     “All [the Trojans] set to work, and we place sliding rollers under the [wooden horse’s] feet, and stretch out hempen ropes to its neck.”

2. to subdue

   Synonyms: subigō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, pācō, expugnō, domō, ēvincō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō

3. to prompt, propose, suggest
4. to subject, submit or subordinate a particular to a general, to range or treat it under, append it

   Synonyms: subigō, subiugō, obnoxiō

5. to supply
6. to substitute

   Synonyms: substituō, suppōnō, succēdō, subrogō

7. (by extension) to forge, counterfeit (having that same connotative sense of substituting fake currency or documents for real ones)

• In post-Augustan poetry the first syllable of verb forms was generally made light.

• English: subject

• “subicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “subicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• subicio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
    
  • to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
    
  • to give a general idea of a thing: sub unum aspectum subicere aliquid
    
  • to produce a false will: testamentum subicere, supponere
    
  • to make oneself master of a people, country: populum, terram suo imperio, suae potestati subicere (not sibi by itself)
    
  • to make one's submission to some one: se imperio alicuius subicere (not alicui)
    
  • (ambiguous) the town lies at the foot of a mountain: oppidum monti subiectum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to come within the sphere of the senses: sensibus or sub sensus subiectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be comprised under the term 'fear.: sub metum subiectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: subiectum esse, obnoxium esse imperio or dicioni alicuius (not simply alicui)