English
superjacent
Superjacent comes from Latin superjacēns, and goes back to jaceō ‘to lie’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEjaceōas jacēre‘to lie’next step skipped: Latin superjaceō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuperjacēns
- Englishearliest quotation 1996superjacent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEjaceōas jacēre‘to lie’next step skipped: Latin superjaceō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuperjacēns
- Englishearliest quotation 1996superjacent
Earliest quotation: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […]: “Pemulis, Troeltsch, and Schacht's triple-room is subdorm B in…”
Every English word from Latin jaceō
Today it means
adj Positioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin jaceō / superjacent