superior

superior is a Latin form of superus, meaning “above, higher; (pl.) the gods above”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

Found 130 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.10: … ambo viderentur; si vero alteri paulum modo tribuisset fortuna, non esse usurum condicionibus pacis eum, qui superior videretur, neque fore aequa parte contentum, qui se omnia habiturum confideret. Condiciones pacis, quoniam an …

Tacitus, Historiae 1.9: Superior exercitus legatum Hordeonium Flaccum spernebat, senecta ac debilitate pedum invalidum, sine constantia, sine …

All forms of superus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.