subdito

See also: súbdito

Latin

Verb

subditō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of subdō

References

• “subdito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• subdito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Navarro-Aragonese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subditus.

Noun

subdito m

1. subject, person under another's rule
   • ca. 1376-1396, Juan Fernández de Heredia, Ystorias de Orosio :

     Diuso de aquesti tiempo, Quintilio Vario faziendose subdito de los subiectos con marauellosa soberuia et grant auaricia, de los germanos qui se rebellauan fue destruido con tres legiones. El qual tajamiento et mortaldat de la republica Cesar Agusto la tenia en tanto por mala et grieu, que muchas vegadas por el grant dolor que dende auia, dando con la cabeça a la pared cridaua: "Quintilio Vario riendeme las legiones que yo te di."

     Before this time, Quinctilius Varus, having become a subject of the conquered with marvelous arrogance and great greed, was destroyed by German rebels along with three legions. Augustus took this reduction [in the forces], this mortality of the Republic, so badly and with such grief, that he would often, in great pain, hit his head against a wall shouting, "Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!"

Old Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subditus. According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested in Juan Ruiz.

Noun

subdito m

1. subject, person under another's rule
   • early 14th century, Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor 13:

     Otrosi puede el papa sus decretales far
     en que a sus subditos manda çierta pena dar

     Moreover, the Pope can emit decrees,
     in which he orders his subjects to pay a certain penalty

Descendants

• Spanish: súbdito

Further reading

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “súbdito”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 322