super-, supra-, sur- +
(Latin: above, over, more than; excessive)
Sur- is a form of super- formed through the French and shouldn't be confused with another assimilated sur- form that comes from sub- and means: "under, below, beneath".
In some words, super- is amplified to mean: "on top of; higher in rank or position than; superior to; greater in quality, amount, or degree than others of its kind; to a degree greater than others of its kind; to a degree greater than normal; extra, additional".
survey
1. To examine or to look at comprehensively.
2. To inspect carefully; to scrutinize: "The police were surveying the people getting off the train."
3. To determine the boundaries, area, or elevations of (land or structures on the earth's surface) by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry.
4. Etymology: implied in surveyance, from Old French surveeir; which came from Middle Latin supervidere, "to oversee"; from Latin super-, "over" + videre, "to see".
surveyance
A survey; an inspection.
surveying
The measurement of dimensional relationships, as of horizontal distances, elevations, directions, and angles, on the earth's surface especially for use in locating property boundaries, construction layout, and mapmaking.
surveyor
1. An engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures.
2. Someone who conducts a statistical survey.
3. Someone whose occupation is taking accurate measurements of land areas in order to determine boundaries, elevations, and dimensions.
survival
1. A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment.
2. A state of surviving or remaining alive.
3. A person or thing that survives, or endures; especially, an ancient custom, observance, belief, or the like.
survive
1. To continue to live; to endure or to last.
2. To remain alive or in existence or able to live or function; especially, to succeed in staying alive when faced with a life-threatening danger.
3. Etymology: originally in the legal (inheritance) sense, from Anglo-French survivre; from Old French souvivre; from Latin supervivere. "to live beyond, to live longer than"; from super, "over, beyond" + vivere, "to live".
survivor
1. Someone who outlives another person or other people.
2. Anyone who lives through afflictions or dangers.
3. Someone who remains alive despite being exposed to a life-threatening danger.
4. A person with great powers of endurance; such as, somebody who shows a great will to live or a great determination to overcome difficulties and to carry on.
5. In law, the one of two or more people having joint interests in property who lives longer than the other, or others, and is, therefore, entitled to the entire property.
survivorship
The right of a joint tenant, or other person, who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of the other one.
Survivorship is particularly applied to those owning real property or other assets; such as, bank accounts or stocks, in "joint tenancy".
Joint tenancy includes the right of survivorship automatically; except that in some states in the United States, joint tenancy of a bank account creates only a presumption of survivorship which might be legally disproved by evidence that the joint tenancy was only for convenience.
tuborsupercharger
A centrifugal air compressor driven by a gas turbine, used to increase the induction pressure in an internal combustion engine.
Ultima semper expectanda dies homini, dicique beatus ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet.
Man's last day must ever be awaited, and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
Related "above, over, beyond the normal, excessive" word units:
epi-;
hyper-;
ultra-, ult-.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "more, plentiful, fullness, excessive, over flowing":
copi-;
exuber-;
hyper-;
multi-;
opulen-;
ple-;
pleio-;
plethor-;
poly-;
total-;
ultra-;
undu-.
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