desuper Latin · revision 32678

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=la dē, la super}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.sʊ.pɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.s̬u.per]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēsuper''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē|super|t1=from|t2=above]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|super]] to [[itc-pro|*super(i)|t=above]] and [[ine-pro|*(h₁)uper(i)|t=over, above]], comparing [[xum|super|t=on top]] and [[grc|ὑπέρ|tr=hupér|t=over]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and Lewis & Short first cite Caesar,^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) who has soldiers leaping onto the phalanxes and wounding the enemy from above.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means from above, from overhead;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is frequent in the historians and poets but not in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has a dark grove that hangs over from above, and Suetonius has a boar attacked with javelins from above.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Without the idea of motion it is simply above, in the poets and later writers, as in Ovid and the Vulgate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) With the accusative it is a preposition, over, above, as in Grattius of a horse coming over the Ligurian Alps.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it from above.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin it can mean there, moreover, on top of, and on the higher side of.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of wounding from above.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a grove hanging over.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of togas spread above.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of a boar attacked from above.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # From above, from [[m|en|overhead]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Above, up above.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' There; moreover.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Preposition===

+ # ''(with accusative)'' Over, above.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[super]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}