sube

See also: sube- and şube

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin subbor.

Esperanto sub

Proto-Italic *-ēd

Old Latin -ēd

Latin -ebor.

Russian -е (-e)influ.

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Polish -einflu.

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Czech -einflu.

Esperanto -e

Esperanto sube

From sub (“below, under”) + -e (adverbial suffix). First attested in 1889.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsube/

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• Rhymes: -ube
• Syllabification: su‧be

Adverb

sube

2. underneath, below

   Antonym: supre

   • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     Mikronovelo estas eĉ pli mallonga: ekzemple ĝi povus konsisti el nur 500 vortoj; aŭ 300; aŭ precize 100 vortoj, kiel la ekzemplo sube;

     A micro-novella is even shorter: for example it could consist of only 500 words; or 300; or precisely 100 words, like the example below;

Further reading

Grammatical texts

• Wennergren, Bertilo (1997-present), “12.3.4.11. Sub”, in Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko‎^[2], Vortfarado

Monolingual dictionaries

• “sube”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “sube”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Multilingual dictionaries

• Wells, John C. (1992), “beneath, under”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary‎^[3], →ISBN, pages 187, 403
• Benson, Peter J. (1995), “beneath, here, under”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary‎^[4], →ISBN, pages 67, 253, 559

Galician

Verb

sube

1. second-person singular imperative of subir

Japanese

Romanization

sube

1. Rōmaji transcription of すべ

Portuguese

Verb

sube

1. (dialectal, proscribed) first/third-person singular preterite indicative of saber

   Synonym: (standard) soube

Spanish

Verb

sube

1. inflection of subir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative