földalatti

föld +‎ alatti

• IPA^(key): [ˈføldɒlɒtːi]
• Hyphenation: föld‧alat‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

földalatti (not comparable)

1. underground, clandestine, illicit

   Synonyms: illegális, rejtett, titkos

According to Section 108 in A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN, this term is written as one word only if it is used in a meaning different from the original, literal sense, such as becoming a noun (as ’subway’, the vehicle, see below) or in the meaning ’illicit’. In the literal sense of ’underground’ (subterranean), it is written as two separate words. Nevertheless, its spelling is sometimes mistaken even by native speakers.

• föld alatti

földalatti (plural földalattik)

1. metro, underground, Tube (UK), subway (US) (underground railway)
   • 1964, J. D. Salinger (author), translated by Judit Gyepes, Zabhegyező (The Catcher in the Rye), Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó (1998), →ISBN, page 7:

     Reggel mentünk be New Yorkba, a McBurney-iskolával volt az összecsapás. Csak aztán mégse. A tőröket, az egész felszerelést, minden vacakot azon a rohadt földalattin hagytam.

     We’d gone in to New York that morning for this fencing meet with McBurney School. Only, we didn’t have the meet. I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway.

As far as Budapest metro is concerned, földalatti specifically refers to the historical, relatively small Metro Line M1, and the other lines are referred to as metró. For the other suburban (underground and overground) railway lines, partially integrated into the metro system, see HÉV.

• földalatti in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN