suboles

Latin[edit]

From sub- + *olēs (“growth”).

subolēs f (genitive subolis); third declension

(botany) shoot, sucker
offspring, race, progeny
Synonyms: prosapia, stirps, prōlēs, progeniēs
baby, infant, child
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.327–328:
  “Saltem sī qua mihī dē tē suscepta fuisset
  ante fugam subolēs, [...].”
  “At least, if somehow – before [your] flight – a child, by you, were to have been begotten to me, [...].”

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“suboles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“suboles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
suboles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.