subaltern
noun
[ ˈsʌb(ə)lt(ə)n ]
• an officer in the British army below the rank of captain, especially a second lieutenant.
subaltern
adjective
• of lower status.
• "the private tutor was a recognized subaltern part of the bourgeois family"
• (of a proposition) implied by another proposition (e.g. as a particular affirmative is by a universal one), but not implying it in return.
Origin:
late 16th century (as an adjective): from late Latin subalternus, from Latin sub- ‘next below’ + alternus ‘every other’.
