superficies
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See also: superfícies
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin superficiēs (“top, surface”), from super- (“above, over”) + faciēs (“form, configuration, shape”). Doublet of surface.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌsuː.pəˈfɪʃ.i.iːz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌsu.pɚˈfɪˌʃiz/, /ˌsu.pɚˈfɪʃ.iˌiz/
Noun
superficies (plural superficies)
- (geometry) A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid.
- The area of a two-dimensional surface.
- The visible, external surface of a body.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. ”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume II, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 72:
- The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.
- The surface (of something immaterial, especially of the mind or soul).
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Rural Life in England:
- An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting. … They present but the cold superficies of character—its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow.
- (law) A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built.
Related terms
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “superficies”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “superficies”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “superficies”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Asturian
Noun
superficies
- plural of superficie
French
Noun
superficies f
- plural of superficie
Interlingua
Noun
superficies
- plural of superficie
Latin
Etymology
From super- (“above, over”) + faciēs (“form, configuration, shape”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /su.perˈfi.ki.eːs/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /su.perˈfi.t͡ʃi.es/,
Noun
superficiēs f (genitive superficiēī); fifth declension
- the top, surface (upper side of a thing)
- (law) a building (as opposed to the land on which it is built)
- (geometry) a superficies
Inflection
Fifth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | superficiēs | superficiēs |
| Genitive | superficiēī | superficiērum |
| Dative | superficiēī | superficiēbus |
| Accusative | superficiem | superficiēs |
| Ablative | superficiē | superficiēbus |
| Vocative | superficiēs | superficiēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants of superficiēs in other languages
- → English: superficies
- → French: surface, superficie (calque)
- → German: Oberfläche (calque) (likely)
- → Dutch: oppervlakte (calque) (likely)
- → Italian: superficie
- → Piedmontese: superfice
References
- “superficies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “superficies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- superficies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- superficies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “superficies”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Spanish
Noun
superficies f pl
- plural of superficie