sublino

From sub- + linō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʊb.lɪ.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsub.li.no]

sublinō (present infinitive sublinere, perfect active sublēvī, supine sublitum); third conjugation

1. to besmear or anoint beneath or from beneath
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 33.5.27:

     sublinunt autem harenosam [chrysocllam], priusquam inducant, atramento et paraetonio

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   1. (Plautine) in the phrase "sublinere ōs alicui": to befool someone, bamboozle, cheat (from the practice of smearing the face of a sleeping person (cf. Nonius 45, 21))
      • c. 206 BCE – 188 BCE, Plautus, Mercator 3.4.44–45:

        Promittebas te os sublinere meo patri: egomet credidi
        homini docto rem mandare, is lapidi mando maximo.

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      • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.1.31–33:

        Ubi primum evenit militi huic occasio,
        sublinit os illi lenae, matri mulieris,
        quam erus meus amabat

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2. (transferred sense) to put underneath, underlay

   Synonym: substernō

   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 37.7.31:

     Hoc metallum apud Persas defecisse tradunt, sed inveniuntur compluribus aliis locis, ut in Paro et Asso; in India trium generum: rubrae et quas pionias vocant ab pinguitudine; tertium genus est quod argenteis bratteis sublinunt.

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• “sublino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sublino”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• sublino, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011