superjacent
English
editEtymology
editFrom (the stem of) Latin superjacēns, present participle of superjacēre, from super- + jacēre (“to lie”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsuperjacent (not comparable)
- Positioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying. [from 16th c.]
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 171:
- Pemulis, Troeltsch, and Schacht's triple-room is subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House and so superjacent to the Dining Hall […] .
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editLatin
editVerb
editsuperjacent