adverb
deorsum
deorsum (not comparable)
Classical[deˈɔr.sũː]Ecclesiastical[deˈɔr.sum]
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Meaning
- not comparabledownwards
Et dixit ei, Si Fīlius Deī es, mitte te deorsum. Scriptum est enim: Quia angelis suis mandavit de te, et in manibus tollent te, ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.
And he [the devil] said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself downwards. For it is written that He has sent orders to his angels about you, and that they shall bear you in their hands lest you strike a stone with your foot."c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Matthaeus.4.6 - not comparablebelow, beneath
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.c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Exodus.20.4
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
ad īnferiōra (opp. sursum)deorsum — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 25
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Dorsum · Tergum
Dorsum (from δέρας) denotes the back, in an horizontal direction, consequently the back of an animal, in opp. to the belly, like νῶτον; tergum (from τράχηλος), the back, in a perpendicular direction, consequently the part between the shoulders in a man, in opp. to the breast, like μετάφρενον. Hence dorsum montis denotes the uppermost surface; tergum montis, the hinder part of a mountain. (v. 15.)
dĕorsum (dissyll.
I. per synaeresin, Lucr. 1, 362; 2, 205 al.; cf.
, on the contrary, trisyll., id. 2, 202.—Also deorsus, like prorsus, quorsus, rursus, adversus, Cic. N. D. 1, 25, 69; Ap. M. 8, p. 207, 18; id. ib. 9, p. 236, 40; id. de Deo Socr. p. 47, 35; id. Flor. no. 15), adv. contr. from devorsum, turned down, downwards, κάτω, opp. to sursum (class.). I. To indicate motion: ego me deorsum duco de arbore, Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 8:
deorsum cuncta feruntur (opp. flammae expressae sursum), Lucr. 2, 202; 205; 6, 335; Cic. N. D. 1, 25, 69; id. Fin. 1, 6, 18; Cels. 5, 26, 31: reliqui (gestus) ante nos et dextra laevaque et sursum et deorsum aliquid ostendunt, Quint. 11, 3, 105: deorsum cadit, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89; cf.: ut isto gladio deorsus ad meum Tlepolemum viam quaeram, i. e. in orcum, Ap. M. 8, p. 207, 18.—b. Pleonast. with versus (versum):
ubi deorsum versus ibit, Cato R. R. 156, 4; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 5; Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1: ubi eo veneris, clivos deorsum vorsum est, right down before you, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35.—c. With sursum, up and down, ἄνω κάτω:
ne sursum deorsum cursites, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 47; cf.: naturis sursum deorsum, ultro citro commeantibus, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84: si sanguis sursum deorsumve erupit, Cels. 2, 8: cum terra quatitur et sursum ac deorsum movetur, Sen. Q. N. 6, 21.—II. To indicate position, locality, down, below:
qui colunt deorsum, magis aestate laborant: qui sursum, magis hieme ... nec non sursum quam deorsum tardius seruntur ac metuntur, Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3; Plaut. Aul. 2, 7, 5; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 34 sq.; Vulg. Deut. 4, 39 al.—Cf. on this art. Hand, Turs. II. p. 280- 282.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
deorsum or deorsus adv.
de+vorsum, vorsus.—Of motion, downwards, down : pondere ferri.—With sursum, up and down : Ne sursum deorsum cursites, T.: naturis sursum deorsum commeantibus.—Of position, down, below : Clivos deorsum vorsum est, right down before you , T.: Nostin porticum hac deorsum? T.
Origins
From dē- + vorsum (archaic form of versum, versus), with loss of [w] and shortening of the first of two vowels in hiatus.
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