desuper
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.su.per/, [ˈd̪eːs̠ʊpɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.su.per/, [ˈd̪ɛːs̬uper]
Adverb
dēsuper (not comparable)
- From above or overhead
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.20.4:
- Non facies tibi sculptile, neque omnem similitudinem quae est in caelo desuper, et quae in terra deorsum, nec eorum quae sunt in aquis sub terra.
- Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
- Non facies tibi sculptile, neque omnem similitudinem quae est in caelo desuper, et quae in terra deorsum, nec eorum quae sunt in aquis sub terra.
Antonyms
References
- “desuper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desuper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desuper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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