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Friday word: Subnivean
Subnivean [suhb-NIV-ee-uhn]
(adj.)
- Located or happening beneath the snow.
From Latin “sub” (under, below, beneath)+Latin “niveus" (snowy, of or from snow) from “niv-" (snow)
Used in a sentence:
“Slumbering in their subnivean caverns, the jötnar dream of the day they awake to cast the world into a new glacial epoch.”
(from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
(adj.)
- Located or happening beneath the snow.
From Latin “sub” (under, below, beneath)+Latin “niveus" (snowy, of or from snow) from “niv-" (snow)
Used in a sentence:
“Slumbering in their subnivean caverns, the jötnar dream of the day they awake to cast the world into a new glacial epoch.”
(from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)