supernus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Most likely a back-formation from supernē.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /suˈper.nus/, [s̠ʊˈpɛrnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /suˈper.nus/, [suˈpɛrnus]
Adjective edit
supernus (feminine superna, neuter supernum, adverb superne); first/second-declension adjective
- upper, that is located above
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.12.37:
- Dentēs nōn sunt testūdinī, set rōstrī marginēs acūtī supernā parte, interiōrem claudente pyxidum modō tantā ōris dūritiā ut lapidēs comminuant.
- The turtle has no teeth, but the edges of the beak are sharp on the side above, which closes the lower jaw in the manner of boxes with such hardness that they can crush stones.
- Dentēs nōn sunt testūdinī, set rōstrī marginēs acūtī supernā parte, interiōrem claudente pyxidum modō tantā ōris dūritiā ut lapidēs comminuant.
- celestial, supernal, lofty
- (geography, figuratively, rare) northern
- 5th C. CE, Priscian (translator), Periegesis 29–33, original author: Dionysius Periegetes, in Poetae Latini Minores (volume V), Emil Baehrens (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1879, page 276:
- Fīnibus est Asiae latus artum lingua supernīs,
Caspia quam mediam faciunt atque aequora pontī
Euxīnī: locus hic discrīmen dīcitur esse
Eurōpae atque Asiae disiungēns rūribus arva.- The northern limits of Asia Minor have a narrow flank, a tongue,
which the Caspian Sea and the waters of the Black Sea create
in the middle: this place is said to be the separation
of Europe and Asia, distinguising the country from the fields.
- The northern limits of Asia Minor have a narrow flank, a tongue,
- 5th C. CE, Priscian (translator), Periegesis 29–33, original author: Dionysius Periegetes, in Poetae Latini Minores (volume V), Emil Baehrens (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1879, page 276:
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | supernus | superna | supernum | supernī | supernae | superna | |
Genitive | supernī | supernae | supernī | supernōrum | supernārum | supernōrum | |
Dative | supernō | supernō | supernīs | ||||
Accusative | supernum | supernam | supernum | supernōs | supernās | superna | |
Ablative | supernō | supernā | supernō | supernīs | |||
Vocative | superne | superna | supernum | supernī | supernae | superna |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Noun edit
supernus m (genitive supernī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) heaven-dweller, God
- (military) a sword thrust made over the top of an opponent's shield
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | supernus | supernī |
Genitive | supernī | supernōrum |
Dative | supernō | supernīs |
Accusative | supernum | supernōs |
Ablative | supernō | supernīs |
Vocative | superne | supernī |
References edit
- “supernus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “supernus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- supernus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “supernus” on page 2069/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)