Friday word: Subnivean

[med_cat]

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)

Comments

[med_cat]

Excellent use in a sentence :)) A++ ;))