subucula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subucula.

Noun

subucula (plural subuculae)

(historical) A man's undergarment or shirt.
(historical) In the early English church, a kind of cassock worn under the alb.

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-

Latin *uō

Latin -cula

Latin subūcula

From sub- + *uō (“to put on”) + -cula (instrument noun suffix). Compare indūcula. The root is attested in the compound verbs induō and exuō.

Noun

subūcula f (genitive subūculae); first declension

a man's undergarment, a shirt (worn under a tunic etc.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	subūcula	subūculae
genitive	subūculae	subūculārum
dative	subūculae	subūculīs
accusative	subūculam	subūculās
ablative	subūculā	subūculīs
vocative	subūcula	subūculae

References

“subucula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“subucula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“subucula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“subucula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers