sub
Portuguese, noun/ˈsu.bi/
sub is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of subcelebridade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “redução de palavras iniciadas com o prefixo sub- que expressam ideia de subalternidade, posição hierárquica…”.
What does sub mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineslangalternative form of subcelebridade
prefix
- 1
sub- (under, beneath)
- 2
sub- (subsidiary, secondary)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. posição abaixo ou inferior (subconjunto, sublinha, subsolo) 2. falta, insuficiência (subdesenvolvido, suburbano)
noun: 1. redução de palavras iniciadas com o prefixo sub- que expressam ideia de subalternidade, posição hierárquica inferior etc. (por exemplo: subcelebridade)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sub
- subs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sub?
- Brazil /ˈsu.bi/
- Portugal /ˈsu.bɨ/
- Portugal [ˈsu.βɨ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sub
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sub in Portuguese?
sub appears 36 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).