superus

superus

1. conditional of superi

From Proto-Italic *superos, cognate to Oscan 𐌔𐌖𐌐𐌓𐌖𐌉𐌔 (supruis, dat. pl. m.) and Umbrian 𐌔𐌖𐌐𐌓𐌖 (supru, abl. sg. m.).

Equivalent to super (“above, over”, preposition) +‎ -us (adjectival suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsʊ.pɛ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.pe.rus]

superus (feminine supera, neuter superum, comparative superior, superlative suprēmus or superrimus or superrumus or summus, adverb suprā); first/second-declension adjective

1. 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).)

First/second-declension adjective.

• superō (verb)

• → Italian: supero

• “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