Latin

Adverb

dēsuper ‎(not comparable)

1. 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.

Antonyms

• deorsum

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “desuper”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.