desursum

From dē- (“from”) +‎ sūrsum (“upwards; above”).

dēsūrsum (not comparable)

1. from above

   Synonym: dēsuper

   Antonym: deorsum

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate John.3.31:

     Qui desursum venit, super omnes est. Qui est de terra, de terra est, et de terra loquitur. Qui de caelo venit, super omnes est.

     He who comes from above is above all. He who is of earth, is of earth, and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

• French: dessus

• “desursum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "desursum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “desursum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.