superus
Esperanto edit
Verb edit
superus
- conditional of superi
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From super (“above, over”, preposition) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.pe.rus/, [ˈs̠ʊpɛrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.pe.rus/, [ˈsuːperus]
Adjective edit
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 [man] having been tossed about much – both on land and on sea – by the power of [those] 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 [those] above.” See: Aeneid; Juno (mythology).)
- that [man] having been tossed about much – both on land and on sea – by the power of [those] above, because of the fierce, unforgetting anger of Juno
- multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
Inflection edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | superus | supera | superum | superī | superae | supera | |
Genitive | superī | superae | superī | superōrum | superārum | superōrum | |
Dative | superō | superō | superīs | ||||
Accusative | superum | superam | superum | superōs | superās | supera | |
Ablative | superō | superā | superō | superīs | |||
Vocative | supere | supera | superum | superī | superae | supera |
Derived terms edit
- superō (verb)
Descendants edit
- Italian: supero
References edit
- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the gods of the upper, lower world: superi; inferi
- the gods of the upper, lower world: superi; inferi