suboles Latin · revision 32200

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂el-e/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subolēs''' ''f'' (genitive subolis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''soboles''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[m|la|sub-|t=from below]] with a noun ⟨*olēs⟩ growth, from the root of [[m|la|alō|t=to nourish]], as in [[m|la|prōlēs|t=offspring]] and [[m|la|indolēs|t=nature]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Festus derived it from [[m|la|olēscō|t=to grow]], as in [[m|la|adulēscēns|t=young man]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|alō]] to [[itc-pro|*ale/o-|t=to feed]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂el-e/o-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|no-t·ail|t=feeds, raises]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is in Plautus' ''Pseudolus'': “look at that young imp!”^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero cites it as an archaic word.^(OLD 2012) Of plants it is a shoot or sucker, as Columella's shoots that creep from the sides and roots, and the fruit of a gourd;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call this sense very rare.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Usually it is an offspring or child, and collectively one's children, posterity or race, as Cicero's “offspring of the Titans” in a translation of Aeschylus; it is also the rising generation, new blood, as in a letter to Cicero of the strength and young blood of an army lost.^(OLD 2012) Livy uses it of a generation, and Virgil of a breed of bees.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein groups it with [[proles|alt=prōlēs]] and [[progenies|alt=prōgeniēs]] as words for descendants, against [[stirps]] and [[genus]] for ancestors.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it offshoot, offspring, progeny.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a young imp.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the offspring of the Titans.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a breed of bees.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a new generation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of shoots.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|shoot]], sucker, [[m|en|offshoot]]; fruit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An offspring, child; collectively, children, [[m|en|progeny]], posterity; the rising generation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A generation; a race, [[m|en|breed]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[proles|alt=prōlēs]]

+ * [[alo|alt=alō]]

+ * [[adolesco|alt=adolēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}