subigo

subigo

Latin

Etymology

    From sub- + agō (to drive).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    subigō (present infinitive subigere, perfect active subēgī, supine subāctum); third conjugation

    1. to bring or get (under)
    2. to plough or cultivate
      Synonyms: colō, incolō
    3. to sharpen or whet
    4. to put down, overcome, conquer, subjugate, subject or subdue
      Synonyms: subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, pācō, conquestō, superō, expugnō, domō, cohibeō, prōflīgō, ēvincō, caedō, exsuperō, obruō, pellō, opprimō, obnoxiō, premō, fundō
    5. to incite, impel; force, compel, constrain to any thing
      Synonyms: perpellō, cōgō, concieō, compellō, impellō

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Romanian: soage

    References

    • subigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • subigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • subigo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to subjugate a nation: populum perdomare, subigere