superficies

superficies (plural superficies)

1. (geometry) A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid
2. The area of a two-dimensional surface.
3. The visible, external surface of a body
4. The 'surface' (of something immaterial, esp. of the mind or soul)
   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rural Life in England:

     An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting. … They present but the cold superficies of character—its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow.

5. (law) A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built

• “superficies” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

superficies f

1. plural of superficie

superficies

1. plural of superficie

From super + faciēs.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /su.perˈfi.ki.eːs/, [sʊ.pɛrˈfɪ.ki.eːs]

superficiēs f (genitive superficiēī); fifth declension

1. top, surface (upper side of a thing)
2. building (as opposed to the land on which it is built)

Fifth declension.

• superficies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• superficies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• superficies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• superficies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• superficies in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

superficies f pl

1. plural of superficie