“above” in Latin

(A) (A) Preposition, super (above, opposed to sub, subter): supra (opposed to infra, above, with implied reference to something below, used of position, not of motion).

Of degree, super (famosissima super ceteros cena, Suet.: super omnia. Liv.: with numerals, super octingentos et quadraginta ante annos, Tac.): supra (supra modum; vires humanas; fidem; and with numerals, sociorum supra millia viginti, Liv.): ante (ante alias pulchritudine insignis, Liv.): praeter (nobilitatus praeter ceteros): plus, amplius (before numerals, quam being omitted, but the substantive not being placed in the ablative, plus ducentos milites desidcravit). e.g., cos super se collocavit: domes super se ipsos concremaverunt: supra terram est caelum.

Out of, sese (Deus) extra omnem culpam posuit. PHRASE. To be above anybody, supra aliquem esse: superiorem esse aliquo: aliquem infra se positum habere. To be above anybody’s praise, alicujus laudibus majorem esse. Above a year, plus annum, or annum et eo diutius (e.g., to live with a person). Above forty years old, major quadraginta annis or annorum; natus est annos magis quadraginta; ainnum quadragesimum excessit (a year et quod excurrit belongs to late Latin). To put one thing above another, rem alii anteponere. To honor anybody above all men, aliquem primo loco habere, ponere; aliquem praeter ceteros omnes colore. To have nobody above one’s self, neminem habere superiorem, priorem. (B) Adverb, Supra (quae supra scripcs).

From above, desuper (vulnerare, protegere, Caes.): superne (gladium superne jugulo defigere, Liv.: incessere, Curt.).