desuper

From dē- (“from”) +‎ super (“above”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdeː.sʊ.pɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɛː.s̬u.per]

dēsuper (not comparable)

1. from above or overhead

   Synonym: dēsūrsum

   Antonym: deorsum

   • 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.

• “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
• “desuper”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.