subterranean
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Sub-
//sʌb//
Synonyms for "sub-" (5 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Translations
66 translations across 28 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- ենթա prefix (under, beneath)
- ստոր prefix (under, beneath)
Breton
3 entries- bes prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
- eil prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
- is prefix (under, beneath)
Catalan
1 entries- sub prefix (under, beneath)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 亞 /亚 prefix (under, beneath)
- 副 prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
- 子 prefix (under, beneath)
- 近 prefix (almost, nearly)
Czech
2 entries- pod prefix (under, beneath)
- sub prefix (under, beneath)
Dutch
3 entries- deel prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
- onder prefix (under, beneath)
- sub prefix (under, beneath)
Esperanto
1 entries- sub prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
Finnish
4 entries- ala prefix (under, beneath)
- ala prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
- ala prefix (almost, nearly)
- ali prefix (under, beneath)
French
2 entries- sous prefix (under, beneath)
- sub prefix (under, beneath)
Galician
2 entries- sub prefix (under, beneath)
- sub prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
German
2 entries- sub prefix (under, beneath)
- unter prefix (under, beneath)
Greek
3 entries- παρα prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
- υπο prefix (under, beneath)
- υπο prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
Hebrew
1 entries- תַּת־ prefix (under, beneath)
Hungarian
1 entries- szub prefix (under, beneath)
Ido
1 entries- sub prefix (under, beneath)
Italian
2 entries- sotto prefix (under, beneath)
- sub prefix (under, beneath)
Japanese
1 entries- 亜 prefix (almost, nearly)
Malay
1 entries- sub prefix (under, beneath)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- under prefix (under, beneath)
- under prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- under prefix (under, beneath)
- under prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
Old English
2 entries- under prefix (under, beneath)
- under prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
Persian
2 entries- زیرـ prefix (under, beneath)
- زیرـ prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
Portuguese
3 entries- so prefix (under, beneath)
- sub prefix (under, beneath)
- sub prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
Russian
2 entries- под prefix (under, beneath)
- суб prefix (under, beneath)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- fo prefix (under, beneath)
- frith prefix (under, beneath)
Spanish
4 entries- so prefix (under, beneath)
- so prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
- sota prefix (under, beneath)
- sota prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
Swedish
1 entries- under prefix (under, beneath)
Welsh
3 entries- is prefix (under, beneath)
- is prefix (subsidiary, secondary)
- is prefix (almost, nearly)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Contrarily, the prefix “sub-” doesn’t change meaning so much as it provides specificity, as seen in the difference between “title” and “subtitle.”
Source: wiktionary
subequatorial
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.