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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *soupos, with *sūpus turning to suppus by the littera rule. Related to Proto-Indo-European *upo, and also to Latin super (“above”), Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) and Proto-Germanic *uber (English over).
Adjective
suppus (feminine suppa, neuter suppum); first/second-declension adjective
- upside down
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “suppus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- suppus 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)
- suppus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.