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Nechama Chaya ([personal profile] med_cat) wrote in [community profile] 1word1day2024-01-19 10:22 am

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)
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-01-19 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooo! Great word!
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[personal profile] full_metal_ox 2024-01-19 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Slumbering in her subnivean cavern, Skadi dreams contentedly of hunting, and skiing, and mountaineering, and once again being home—bearing her ex no ill-will and wishing him an equally contented future sailing the open seas and basking on the sunny beaches.