Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subitaneous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: subi-ta-neous
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Sudden; suddenly done or made.

Obsolete

adj

Immediately developing (as contrasted with e.g. diapausing).

Example Sentences

"... subitaneous (immediately developing) and diapausing (dormant) eggs, brood retention, environmental sex determination and suppression of meiosis in subitaneous eggs. The production of subitaneous and diapausing eggs is[…]"
"... subitaneous or resting. This is enough to make the Calanoida eggs (about 104–106 m-2 of bottom area) more abundant than those of Rotifera (about 104 m-2) and Cladocera (about 103–105 m-2) in sediment assemblages (Hairston 1996). Among[…]"
"... subitaneous offspring (Arbačiauskas 1998). The larger early fecundity at high food concentrations resulted in higher fitness of post-diapause females also in D. magna; however, a trend for a higher fitness in subitaneous offspring was[…]"

Etymology

From Latin subitaneus. Doublet of sudden.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: subitaneus

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more subitaneous (comparative) most subitaneous (superlative)

Derived Forms

subitaneously subitaneousness

Synonyms

abrupt precipitous spontaneous

Rhymes With

spontaneous simultaneous instantaneous cutaneous contemporaneous subcutaneous extraneous extemporaneous ascanius opertaneous sanious

Questions

What does subitaneous mean?: Sudden; suddenly done or made.
Where does subitaneous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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