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subterraneous

English

Etymology

From Latin subterraneus.

Adjective

subterraneous (not comparable)

  1. Subterranean.
    • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:
      [S]he recollected a subterraneous passage which led from the vaults of the castle to the church of saint Nicholas.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Boston 1892 (8th impression, February 1922), OCLC 237074, page 527:
      A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.

Usage notes

Before 1830, this word was more common in print use than subterranean. However, in contemporary English the word is used less than 1% as often as subterranean.

Derived terms

  • subterraneousness

Translations

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subterranean

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subterraneus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s?bt???e?ni?n/
  • Hyphenation: sub?ter?ra?ne?an

Adjective

subterranean (comparative more subterranean, superlative most subterranean)

  1. below ground, under the earth, underground

Synonyms

  • subterraneous, subterrene, underground, hypogean

Related terms

  • terranean

Translations

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