super
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsu.pɚ/, [ˈsʉu̯.pɚ]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsʉː.pə(ɹ)/, [ˈsïɯ.pə(ɹ)]
Audio (General Australian): (file)
- Homophone: souper (one pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: su‧per
- Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
editFrom super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.
Adjective
editsuper (not comparable)
Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- chief super
- minisuper
- super-app
- superbackground
- Super Bowl
- super combined
- supercomposite
- supercup
- super cup
- superdick
- superdodger
- super-duper
- superego
- superfecta
- superfight
- superforecaster
- superforecasting
- superfox
- super gonorrhea
- super greenhouse gas
- super light
- superly
- Supermarionation
- superminority
- superneutral
- super outbreak
- super over
- super PAC
- superpenis
- superplex
- super power
- superprimate
- superpussy
- super recogniser
- super shoe
- super spiral
- super star cluster
- super straight
- super trouper
- super video CD
- super weakly interacting massive particle
- super X-ray
- supreme
Related terms
editTranslations
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Adverb
editsuper (not comparable)
- (informal) Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).
- The party was super awesome.
- 1992 March 14, The Canberra Times, page 9, column 2:
- The job is super interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people.
Etymology 2
editAbbreviation by shortening.
Noun
editsuper (plural supers)
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Short for superannuation.
- Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired.
- Short for supercomputer.
- 1989, Kai Hwang, Doug DeGroot, Parallel processing for supercomputers and artificial intelligence:
- The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example.
- (comics, slang) Short for superhero.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
- (beekeeping) Short for superhive.
- 1983, Sue Hubbell, A Country Year: Living the Questions, Boston, MA: Mariner Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 69:
- There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.
- (informal, US) Short for superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- (neologism) Short for supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
- Short for supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
- 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post[2]:
- The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right.
- Short for supertanker.
- 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil, page 46:
- That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.
- Short for supervisor.
Verb
editsuper (third-person singular simple present supers, present participle supering, simple past and past participle supered)
- (beekeeping) Short for superhive.
- 1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73:
- The question is: when is the best time to super?
- 1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73:
- (television) Short for superimpose.
- 1987, Television Quarterly, volumes 23-24:
- Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]
Anagrams
editChinese
editEtymology 1
editFrom English super. Popularized by Eric Tsang in the Super Trio series.
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editsuper
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) Used when a tied or draw situation occurs, or when one is suggesting a draw.
Etymology 2
editClipping of English supervisor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsuper
Czech
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English super, French super, from Latin super.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsuper (indeclinable)
- (informal) super, great
- Synonym: supr
- Můj brácha si koupil super auto, to musíš vidět!
- Ten výlet byl prostě super!
Usage notes
edit- This word is slightly more formal than supr, yet still informal.
See also
editInterjection
editsuper
Further reading
edit- “super”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
Danish
editEtymology
editBorrowed via English super from Latin super (“over”)
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsuper (neuter super or supert, plural super or (unofficial) supre)
Adverb
editsuper
Synonyms
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English super, ultimately from Latin super.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editsuper
- (informal) very, extremely, super
- De kunststofuitvoering is wel super duur.
- The plastic version is super expensive.
Derived terms
editAdjective
editsuper (not comparable)
Inflection
editDeclension of super | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
uninflected | super | |||
inflected | super | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | super | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | super | ||
n. sing. | super | |||
plural | super | |||
definite | super | |||
partitive | supers |
Related terms
editEsperanto
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editPreposition
editsuper
Antonyms
editFrench
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin super. Doublet of the inherited sur. See also hyper, borrowed from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsuper (invariable)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Turkish: süper
Adverb
editsuper
Synonyms
editInterjection
editsuper
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editProbably a borrowing from a Germanic language, from *sūpaną (“to sip, sup”). If so then doublet of souper.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editsuper
Conjugation
editinfinitive | simple | super | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | supant /sy.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | supé /sy.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | supe /syp/ |
supes /syp/ |
supe /syp/ |
supons /sy.pɔ̃/ |
supez /sy.pe/ |
supent /syp/ |
imperfect | supais /sy.pɛ/ |
supais /sy.pɛ/ |
supait /sy.pɛ/ |
supions /sy.pjɔ̃/ |
supiez /sy.pje/ |
supaient /sy.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | supai /sy.pe/ |
supas /sy.pa/ |
supa /sy.pa/ |
supâmes /sy.pam/ |
supâtes /sy.pat/ |
supèrent /sy.pɛʁ/ | |
future | superai /sy.pʁe/ |
superas /sy.pʁa/ |
supera /sy.pʁa/ |
superons /sy.pʁɔ̃/ |
superez /sy.pʁe/ |
superont /sy.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | superais /sy.pʁɛ/ |
superais /sy.pʁɛ/ |
superait /sy.pʁɛ/ |
superions /sy.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
superiez /sy.pə.ʁje/ |
superaient /sy.pʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | supe /syp/ |
supes /syp/ |
supe /syp/ |
supions /sy.pjɔ̃/ |
supiez /sy.pje/ |
supent /syp/ |
imperfect2 | supasse /sy.pas/ |
supasses /sy.pas/ |
supât /sy.pa/ |
supassions /sy.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
supassiez /sy.pa.sje/ |
supassent /sy.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | supe /syp/ |
— | supons /sy.pɔ̃/ |
supez /sy.pe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
edit- “super”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editGerman
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin super; modern usage influenced by English super.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsuper (strong nominative masculine singular superer, not comparable)
Usage notes
editIn the standard language, super is indeclinable; it is only rarely declined in colloquial usage.
Declension
editnumber & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist super | sie ist super | es ist super | sie sind super | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | superer | supere | superes | supere |
genitive | superen | superer | superen | superer | |
dative | superem | superer | superem | superen | |
accusative | superen | supere | superes | supere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der supere | die supere | das supere | die superen |
genitive | des superen | der superen | des superen | der superen | |
dative | dem superen | der superen | dem superen | den superen | |
accusative | den superen | die supere | das supere | die superen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein superer | eine supere | ein superes | (keine) superen |
genitive | eines superen | einer superen | eines superen | (keiner) superen | |
dative | einem superen | einer superen | einem superen | (keinen) superen | |
accusative | einen superen | eine supere | ein superes | (keine) superen |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
editInterlingua
editPreposition
editsuper
- about (focused on a given topic)
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin super. Cf. sopra.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsuper (invariable)
Noun
editsuper m (invariable)
- the best
- superphosphate
Noun
editsuper f (invariable)
- the best grade of petrol
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *super, from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“over, above”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”).
The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional. The ablative is from the ablative of cause.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsu.per/, [ˈs̠ʊpɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.per/, [ˈsuːper]
Preposition
editsuper (+ accusative, ablative)
- (with accusative or ablative) [of place] above, on the top of, upon
- Cibus super mēnsam est.
- The food is on the table.
- (with accusative) [of place] above, beyond
- (with accusative) [of measure] above, beyond, over, in addition to
- (with ablative) concerning, regarding
Usage notes
edit- Used in many compound words, see super-.
Adverb
editsuper (not comparable)
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- Asturian: sobre
- Catalan: sobre, → súper
- → Czech: super, supr
- → English: super
- → Polish: super
- → French: super
- Galician: sobre
- → German: super
- → Hungarian: szuper
- Italian: sopra, super
- Romanian: spre
- Occitan: subre
- Old French: seur
- Portuguese: sobre, super, súper
- Sardinian: subre
- Spanish: sobre, super
- → Russian: супер (super)
References
edit- “super”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “super”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- super in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen super ripas effunditur
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen super ripas effunditur
- super in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Polish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editsuper (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- (colloquial) great, excellent
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry
Adverb
editsuper (not comparable)
See also
editFurther reading
editPortuguese
editAlternative forms
edit- súper (prescribed)
Etymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin super; cf. also English super. Doublet of the inherited sobre.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: su‧per
Adverb
editsuper (not comparable)
Adjective
editsuper (invariable)
Related terms
editRomanian
editEtymology
editAdjective
editsuper m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | super | super | super | super | ||
definite | — | — | — | — | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | super | super | super | super | ||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Adverb
editsuper
Sardinian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editPreposition
editsuper
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin super; cf. also English super. Doublet of the inherited sobre.
Adjective
editsuper (invariable)
Swedish
editPronunciation
editVerb
editsuper
Adjective
editsuper (not comparable)
Declension
editOnly used predicatively.
- English 2-syllable words
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- en:Comics
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- en:Beekeeping
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- en:Television
- en:People
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- Chinese student slang
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