Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subterrane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-ter-rane
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Synonym of subterranean.

noun

A cave or underground room.

Example Sentences

"By this ſecret ſubterrane vault, Zedechias making his ſtealth, recouered (by the helpe of the darke night) the plaines or deſerts of Iericho: […]"
"The waters stir, / Not as with air, but by some subterrane / And rocking power of the internal world."
"I watched men in moon suits bury drums of nuclear waste and I thought of the living rocks down there, the subterrane process, the half-life, the atoms that decay to half the original number."
"While these awful scenes were being enacted in the subterranes of the holy inquisition […]"

Etymology

From Latin subterrāneus. Doublet of subterraneous.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: subterrāneus

Inflected Forms

subterranes (plural)

Synonyms

subterranean

Questions

What does subterrane mean?: Synonym of subterranean.
Where does subterrane come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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