substem

English

Etymology

From sub- + stem.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sŭb′stĕm
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌb.stɛm/; (also Received Pronunciation) /ˈsʌb.stem/
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsɐb.stem/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈsəb.sʈɛ(ː)m/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌbstɛm
• Hyphenation: sub‧stem

Noun

substem (plural substems)

1. (botany) One of several plant stems splitting off from a main stem.
2. (linguistics) Part of a stem.
   • 2007, chapter 28.3, in Dirk Geeraerts, Hubert Cuyckens, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 737:

     Similarly, Polish (Dancygier 2000) uses three interacting substems to express spatial information: […]

Anagrams

• besmuts

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʊp.stẽː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsub.stem]
• Hyphenation: sub‧stem

Verb

substem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of substō