Latin

Alternative forms

• deorsus

Adverb

deorsum ‎(not comparable)

1. downwards
   • 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

• dēsuper

Descendants

References

• deorsum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• deorsum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DEORSUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “deorsum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.