subucula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subucula.

Noun

subucula (plural subuculae)

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

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	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