super
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsu.pɚ/, [ˈsʉu̯.pɚ]
Audio (CAN) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsʉː.pə(ɹ)/, [ˈsïɯ.pə(ɹ)]
Audio (AUS) (file)
- Homophone: souper (one pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: su‧per
- Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.
Adjective edit
super (not comparable)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
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Adverb edit
super (not comparable)
- (informal) Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).
- The party was super awesome.
- 1992 March 14, The Canberra Times, page 9, column 2:
- The job is super interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people.
Etymology 2 edit
Abbreviation by shortening.
Noun edit
super (plural supers)
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Short for superannuation.
- Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired.
- Short for supercomputer.
- 1989, Kai Hwang, Doug DeGroot, Parallel processing for supercomputers and artificial intelligence:
- The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example.
- (comics, slang) Short for superhero.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
- (beekeeping) Short for superhive.
- 1983, Sue Hubbell, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Boston, MA: Mariner Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 69:
- There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.
- (informal, US) Short for superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- (neologism) Short for supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
- Short for supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
- 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post[2]:
- The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right.
- Short for supertanker.
- 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil, page 46:
- That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.
- Short for supervisor.
Verb edit
super (third-person singular simple present supers, present participle supering, simple past and past participle supered)
- (beekeeping) Short for superhive.
- 1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73:
- The question is: when is the best time to super?
- 1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73:
- (television) Short for superimpose.
- 1987, Television Quarterly, volumes 23-24:
- Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]
Anagrams edit
Chinese edit
Etymology 1 edit
From English super. Popularized by Eric Tsang in the Super Trio series.
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
super
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) Used when a tied or draw situation occurs, or when one is suggesting a draw.
Etymology 2 edit
Clipping of English supervisor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
super
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English super, French super, from Latin super.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
super (indeclinable)
- (informal) super, great
- Synonym: supr
- Můj brácha si koupil super auto, to musíš vidět!
- Ten výlet byl prostě super!
Usage notes edit
- This word is slightly more formal than supr, yet still informal.
See also edit
Interjection edit
super
Further reading edit
- super in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed via English super from Latin super (“over”)
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
super (neuter super or supert, plural super or (unofficial) supre)
Adverb edit
super
Synonyms edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English super, ultimately from Latin super.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
super
- (informal) very, extremely, super
- De kunststofuitvoering is wel super duur.
- The plastic version is super expensive.
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
super (not comparable)
Inflection edit
Inflection of super | ||||
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uninflected | super | |||
inflected | super | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | super | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | super | ||
n. sing. | super | |||
plural | super | |||
definite | super | |||
partitive | supers |
Related terms edit
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
super
Antonyms edit
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin super. Doublet of the inherited sur. See also hyper, borrowed from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
super (invariable)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: süper
Adverb edit
super
Synonyms edit
Interjection edit
super
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Probably a borrowing from a Germanic language, from *sūpaną (“to sip, sup”). If so then doublet of souper.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
super
Conjugation edit
infinitive | simple | super | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | supant /sy.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | supé /sy.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | supe /syp/ |
supes /syp/ |
supe /syp/ |
supons /sy.pɔ̃/ |
supez /sy.pe/ |
supent /syp/ |
imperfect | supais /sy.pɛ/ |
supais /sy.pɛ/ |
supait /sy.pɛ/ |
supions /sy.pjɔ̃/ |
supiez /sy.pje/ |
supaient /sy.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | supai /sy.pe/ |
supas /sy.pa/ |
supa /sy.pa/ |
supâmes /sy.pam/ |
supâtes /sy.pat/ |
supèrent /sy.pɛʁ/ | |
future | superai /sy.pʁe/ |
superas /sy.pʁa/ |
supera /sy.pʁa/ |
superons /sy.pʁɔ̃/ |
superez /sy.pʁe/ |
superont /sy.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | superais /sy.pʁɛ/ |
superais /sy.pʁɛ/ |
superait /sy.pʁɛ/ |
superions /sy.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
superiez /sy.pə.ʁje/ |
superaient /sy.pʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | supe /syp/ |
supes /syp/ |
supe /syp/ |
supions /sy.pjɔ̃/ |
supiez /sy.pje/ |
supent /syp/ |
imperfect2 | supasse /sy.pas/ |
supasses /sy.pas/ |
supât /sy.pa/ |
supassions /sy.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
supassiez /sy.pa.sje/ |
supassent /sy.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | supe /syp/ |
— | supons /sy.pɔ̃/ |
supez /sy.pe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading edit
- “super”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin super; modern usage influenced by English super.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
super (strong nominative masculine singular superer, not comparable)
Usage notes edit
In the standard language, super is indeclinable; it is only rarely declined in colloquial usage.
Declension edit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist super | sie ist super | es ist super | sie sind super | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | superer | supere | superes | supere |
genitive | superen | superer | superen | superer | |
dative | superem | superer | superem | superen | |
accusative | superen | supere | superes | supere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der supere | die supere | das supere | die superen |
genitive | des superen | der superen | des superen | der superen | |
dative | dem superen | der superen | dem superen | den superen | |
accusative | den superen | die supere | das supere | die superen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein superer | eine supere | ein superes | (keine) superen |
genitive | eines superen | einer superen | eines superen | (keiner) superen | |
dative | einem superen | einer superen | einem superen | (keinen) superen | |
accusative | einen superen | eine supere | ein superes | (keine) superen |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Interlingua edit
Preposition edit
super
- about (focused on a given topic)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin super. Cf. sopra.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
super (invariable)
Noun edit
super m (invariable)
- the best
- superphosphate
Noun edit
super f (invariable)
- the best grade of petrol
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *super, from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over, above”). Cognate to to Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”).
The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional. The ablative is from the ablative of cause.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.per/, [ˈs̠ʊpɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.per/, [ˈsuːper]
Preposition edit
super (+ accusative, ablative)
- (with accusative) [of place] above, on the top of, upon
- Cibus super mensam est.
- The food is on the table.
- (with accusative) [of place] above, beyond
- (with accusative) [of measure] above, beyond, over, in addition to
- (with ablative) concerning, regarding
Usage notes edit
- Used in many compound words, see super-.
Adverb edit
super (not comparable)
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Asturian: sobre
- Catalan: sobre, → súper
- → Czech: super, supr
- → English: super
- → Polish: super
- → French: super
- Galician: sobre
- → German: super
- → Hungarian: szuper
- Italian: sopra, super
- Romanian: spre
- Occitan: subre
- Old French: seur
- Portuguese: sobre, super, súper
- Sardinian: subre
- Spanish: sobre, super
- → Russian: супер (super)
References edit
- “super”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “super”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- super in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen super ripas effunditur
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen super ripas effunditur
- super in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Polish edit
Etymology edit
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Adjective edit
super (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- (colloquial) great, excellent
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry
Adverb edit
super (not comparable)
See also edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
- súper (prescribed)
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin super; cf. also English super. Doublet of the inherited sobre.
Adverb edit
super (not comparable)
Adjective edit
super (invariable)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
super m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | super | super | super | super | ||
definite | — | — | — | — | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | super | super | super | super | ||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Adverb edit
super
Sardinian edit
Alternative forms edit
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super
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin super; cf. also English super. Doublet of the inherited sobre.
Adjective edit
super (invariable)
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
super
Adjective edit
super (not comparable)
Declension edit
Only used predicatively.