substratum

substratum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin substratum, nominalisation of the neuter of Latin substrātus, perfect passive participle of substernō.

Noun

substratum (plural substrata)

1. A layer that lies underneath another.

   Synonym: underlayer

2. (figuratively) The underlying cause or basis of something.
3. (linguistics) A substrate.

Related terms

• substratal

Translations

a layer that lies underneath another

Belarusian: субстра́т m (substrát) Bulgarian: субстра́т m (substrát) Catalan: substrat (ca) m Dutch: laag (nl) (1), onderliggende reden (2), substraat (nl) (3) Finnish: aluskerros Georgian: სუბსტრატი (subsṭraṭi) Greek: υπόστρωμα (el) (ypóstroma) Ancient Greek: ὑπόστρωμα (hupóstrōma) Irish: bunsraith f, foshraith f, fostratam m Italian: substrato (it) m, sostrato m Norwegian: Bokmål: substrat (no) n Nynorsk: substrat n Polish: podłoże (pl) Portuguese: substrato (pt) m Romanian: substrat (ro) n Russian: субстра́т (ru) m (substrát) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: су̀пстра̄т Roman: sùpstrāt (sh) m Ukrainian: субстра́т (uk) m (substrát)

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French

Noun

substratum m (plural substratums)

1. stratum

Further reading

• “substratum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.