The corpus record — Latin

super

over, above, beyond

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Ausonius 1 · 69.44/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 4 · 51.68/10k
Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 5 · 38.55/10k
Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 8 · 30.62/10k
De Re Coquinaria 43 · 27.41/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 28 · 24.95/10k
Mosella 8 · 24.61/10k
De Baptismo 10 · 23.41/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 23 · 20.71/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 2 · 18.69/10k

Densest 12 of 163 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. super — de Vaan

over, above, beyond

2. sŭper — Lewis & Short

adj., v. superus

3. sŭper — Lewis & Short

above

4. super — Walde–Hofmann

superne II 616 sopir II 410 suprusese II 616

Attestations

6 of 2,268 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan pp. 614-615; entry #1740 Review: Under source audit
OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 467; entry #7522 Review: Under source audit
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 1782; entry #3468 Review: Under source audit

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