superior

• adj.優れた、優れた、傑出した、慇懃な
• n.優れた、長；優れた、主人；年長者

super-, on, above, -ior, 比較接尾辞。関連する単語の意味を導き出す。

superior (adj.)

late 14c., "higher in position," from Old French superior "higher, upper" (Modern French superieur), from Latin superiorem (nominative superior) "higher," comparative of superus "situated above, upper," from super "above, over" (see super-).

Meaning "higher in rank or dignity" is attested from late 15c.; sense of "of a higher nature or character" is attested from 1530s. Original sense was preserved more strongly in French (as in les étages supérieur "the upper stories"), and in Lake Superior, a loan-translation of French Lac Supérieur, literally "upper lake" (at 600 feet above sea-level it has the highest surface elevation of the five Great Lakes and is the furthest north).

Surprise a person of the class that is supposed to keep servants cleaning his own boots, & either he will go on with the job while he talks to you, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, or else he will explain that the bootboy or scullery-maid is ill & give you to understand that he is, despite appearances, superior to boot-cleaning. If he takes the second course, you conclude that he is not superior to it; if the first, that perhaps he is. [Fowler]

superior (n.)

early 15c., from Latin superior (see superior (adj.)), used in Medieval Latin with a noun sense of "one higher, a superior."

1. His immediate superior has singled him out for a special mention.

彼の頭の上の上司は特に彼に言及した。

2.Our superior technology is our ace in the hole.

私たちの超衆の技術は私たちの宝です。

3.Anthony sometimes felt that his mistress was his superior in will-power.

アンソニーは彼よりも意志力があると感じることがある。

4.The company president，and my immediate superior ，was the dynamic Harry Stokes.

会社の会長、つまり私の直接の上司であり、精力的なハリー?ストークスです。

5.The Colonel lifted the phone and dialed his superior .

大佐は電話を取り、上司の番号をダイヤルした。