Dictionary

subjacent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /sʌbˈdʒeɪsənt/ (UK)

Etymology

From Latin subiaceō (“lie beneath”).

Meanings

1. Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
   • Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 194–5:
   • [in relation to the second floor flat in a tenement building] the subjacent first floor and ground floor flats were ... owned by the first defenders. 2002, Scottish Court of Session, Anderson v. Express Investment Company Ltd.:
   • In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […] 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:

Forms

Deriveds

subjacently · subjacency

Relateds

superjacent

Translations (4)

fr sous-jacent (underlying) · io subjacanta (underlying) · es subyacente (underlying) · pt subjacente (underlying)