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If "de-" means "down" or "off" and "sub-" means "under", what is the latin prefix- meaning "up"?
Sub can also mean "up to" when it takes an accusative. (When you move to beneath something, you are generally moving up to it.) Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, up to thy citadel we all flee ...
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