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Verb
superus
- conditional of superi
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *superos, cognate to Oscan 𐌔𐌖𐌐𐌓𐌖𐌉𐌔 (supruis, dat. pl. m.)
and Umbrian 𐌔𐌖𐌐𐌓𐌖 (supru, abl. sg. m.).
Equivalent to super (“above, over”, preposition) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
superus (feminine supera, neuter superum, comparative superior, superlative suprēmus or superrimus or summus); first/second-declension adjective
- above, upper, higher
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.3–4:
- multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram- that having been tossed about much – both on land and on sea – by the power of above, because of the fierce, unforgetting anger of Juno
(The travails of Aeneas are due to “higher powers,” i.e. the gods above. This poetic example shows the use of superum instead of superōrum for the genitive plural “of above.” See: Aeneid; Juno (mythology).)
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “superus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “superus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- superus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the gods of the upper, lower world: superi; inferi