deorsum

See also: deorsum-

Latin

Alternative forms

• deorsus (Classical Latin)
• jūsum, dōrsum, deiorsum, deiūsum, zōsum, zūsum, iūsum, jūsum, iōsum, jōsum, jūsu, jōsu, jūso (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, Proto-Romance)

Etymology

From dē (“down”) +‎ vorsum, a variant of versum (“towards, -wards”), from the perfect passive participle of vortere, vertere (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deˈor.sum/, [d̪eˈɔrs̠ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈor.sum/, [d̪eˈɔrsum]

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
• sūrsum

Descendants

• Aromanian: nghios, ghios, ghiosu
• Friulian: jù
• Italian: giù, giuso
• Occitan: jos
• Old French: jus
  • French: jusant
  • Norman: jusaunt
• Portuguese: ajuso

• Romanian: jos
• Sardinian: giòssu
• Sicilian: jusu, iusu, gnusu
• Spanish: ayuso, yuso
• Venetian: zó, xó, xóxo
• Walloon: djus

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• deorsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.