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|lshtext=<b>sŭper-cĭlĭum</b>: ii, n. [[super]] and [[root]] kal-; Gr. [[καλύπτω]];> Lat. celāre, to [[hide]], [[cover]]; cf. Gr. [[κύλον]], [[ἐπικύλιον]],> eyelid; cf. also, Ang.-Sax. hlid; Engl. [[lid]]; Germ. Augenlid:<br /><b>I</b> [[cilium]] est [[folliculus]], quo [[oculus]] tegitur, [[unde]] [[fit]] [[supercilium]], Fest. p. 43 Müll.; Plin. 11, 37, 57, § 157.<br /><b>I</b> Lit., the [[eye-brow]] ([[good]] [[prose]]; [[more]] freq. in the plur.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur.: ex superciliorum aut remissione aut contractione [[facile]] judicabimus, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146: supercilia abrasa, id. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: superiora superciliis obducta sudorem a capite defluentem depellunt, id. N. D. 2, 57, 143: nec [[sedeo]] duris torva superciliis, Ov. H. 16 (17), 16: constricta, Quint. 1, 11, 10: [[torta]], Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 12: conjuncta, Suet. Aug. 79: [[usque]] ad malarum scripturam currentia, Petr. 126; Plin. 11, 37, 51, § 138: balenae, id. 9, 62, 88, § 186; Quint. 11, 3, 78; 11, 3, 79; 11, 3, 160: mulieres potissimum supercilia sua attribuerunt ei deae (Junoni Lucinae), Varr. L. L. 5, § 69 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 305 ib.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sing.: altero ad frontem sublato, altero ad [[mentum]] depresso supercilio, Cic. Pis. 6, 14: [[triste]], Lucr. 6, 1184: altero erecto, altero [[composito]] supercilio, Quint. 11, 3, 74: quo supercilio spicit, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 100: hirsutum, Verg. E. 8, 34; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 94; Ov. A. A. 3, 201; Juv. 2, 93 al.: [[supercilium]] salit (as a favorable [[omen]]), Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 105.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., the [[prominent]] [[part]] of a [[thing]], the [[brow]], [[ridge]], [[summit]] (not [[ante]]-Aug.): clivosi tramitis, Verg. G. 1, 108: tumuli, Liv. 34, 29, 11: [[infimo]] [[stare]] supercilio, at the [[bottom]] of the [[projection]], id. 27, 18, 10; cf. Stat. Th. 6, 63: [[supercilium]] quoddam excelsum nacti, Auct. B. Afr. 58, 1; Plin. 6, 5, 5, § 17.—In archit., a projecting moulding [[over]] the [[scotia]] of a [[column]] or cornice, Vitr. 3, 3 med.; a [[threshold]], id. 4, 6, 5.—Of the [[coast]] of the [[sea]]: supercilia ejus [[sinistra]], Amm. 22, 8, 8; the [[shore]] of a [[river]]: Nili, id. 14, 8, 5: Rheni, id. 14, 10, 6: fluminis, id. 17, 9, 1: [[amnis]], App. M. 5, p. 169, 34.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> The [[nod]], the [[will]]: cuncta supercilio [[movens]], Hor. C. 3, 1, 8; Claud. Ep. ad Ser. 2, 58.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Pride, [[haughtiness]], [[arrogance]], [[sternness]], [[superciliousness]] ([[class]].; [[mostly]] sing.): [[supercilium]] ac [[regius]] [[spiritus]], Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 93; id. Sest. 8, 19; id. Red. in Sen. 7, 14; Sen. Ben. 2, 4, 1; Juv. 6, 169; 5, 62: [[triste]] Catonis, Mart. 11, 2, 1: [[pone]] [[supercilium]], id. 1, 5, 2: supercilii [[matrona]] severi, Ov. Tr. 2, 309; cf.: contegere libidines fronte et supercilio, non pudore et temperantiā, Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>sŭpercĭlĭum</b>,¹⁰ ĭī, n.,<br /><b>1</b> sourcil : <b> a)</b> sing., Cic. Pis. 14 ; Quint. 11, 3, 74 ; Lucr. 6, 1184 ; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 94 ; <b> b)</b> pl., superciliorum [[remissio]] [[aut]] [[contractio]] Cic. Off. 1, 146, le mouvement de détente ou de froncement des sourcils, cf. Cic. Com. 20 ; Nat. 2, 143 ; Quint. 1, 11, 10, etc.; <b> c)</b> [fig.] partie saillante, saillie proéminence, sommet : Virg. G. 1, 108 ; Liv. 34, 29, 11 &#124;&#124; hauteur, crête : Liv. 27, 18, 10 ; Plin. 6, 17<br /><b>2</b> [fig.] fierté, orgueil, morgue, arrogance : Cic. Agr. 2, 93 ; Sen. 14 ; Sest. 19 ; Sen. Ben. 2, 4, 1 &#124;&#124; sévérité, air sourcilleux : Mart. 1, 5, 2 ; 11, 2, 1, cf. Cic. Prov. 8.
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{{Georges
|georg=supercilium, iī, n., die [[Augenbraue]], Plur. (u. [[oft]] Sing. kollektiv) die Augenbrauen, I) eig. u. meton.: A) eig.: α) Sing.: hirsutum [[supercilium]] promissaque [[barba]], Verg.: supercilii subducti carptores, Laev. fr.: [[quod]] [[candidum]] [[splenium]] in [[hoc]] [[aut]] in [[illud]] [[supercilium]] transferebat, Plin. ep.: [[altero]] ad frontem sublato, [[altero]] ad [[mentum]] depresso supercilio, Cic.: [[altero]] erecto, [[altero]] [[composito]] supercilio, Quint.: [[fere]] id in capillo fit, rarius in [[barba]], [[aliquando]] [[etiam]] in supercilio, Cels.: [[quo]] supercilio spicit? Plaut.: deme supercilio nubem, Hor.: [[supercilium]] salit, [[als]] günstiges [[Omen]], Plaut. Pseud. 107. – β) Plur.: superciliorum [[aut]] [[remissio]] [[aut]] [[contractio]], Cic.: grandia supercilia, [[Varro]] fr.: hirsuta supercilia, Non.: supercilia constricta, [[dissidentia]], Quint.: supercilia subducta, Turpil. com. u. [[Varro]] fr.: capite et superciliis [[semper]] [[esse]] [[rasis]], Cic.: [[caput]] et supercilia [[illa]] [[penitus]] abrasa malitiam olere videntur, Cic.: [[ira]] contractis superciliis, [[tristitia]] deductis, [[hilaritas]] remissis ostenditur, Quint.: [[primum]] superiora, superciliis obducta, sudorem a capite et a fronte defluentem repellunt, die [[oben]] liegenden Teile, die [[mit]] Bramen [[umgeben]] sind, Cic.: [[nares]] oculique et palpebrae et supercilia aliquave ex his pervertuntur, Cels.: quem dicere [[nolo]] nomine, ne tollat rubra supercilia, daß er [[nicht]] die [[vor]] [[Zorn]] roten A. erhebe = daß er [[nicht]] [[zornig]] werde, Catull.: supercilia attrahere od. subducere, [[wir]] »die [[Stirn]] [[falten]], eine ernste [[Miene]] [[annehmen]]«, Sen. – B) meton.: a) finstere Augenbrauen = das finstere [[Wesen]], der finstere, strenge [[Ernst]], der finstere [[Stolz]], supercilii severi [[matrona]], Ov.: [[triste]] [[supercilium]] durique severa Catonis [[frons]], Mart.: censorium [[supercilium]], Sen. rhet. u. Val. Max.: maritale superc., Val. Max.: gravissimum patris superc., Val. Max.: [[grande]] sup., wichtige [[Miene]], Iuven.: lateant libidines illae tenebricosae, quas fronte et supercilio, [[non]] pudore et temperantiā contegebat, Cic.: [[quid]] [[ego]] de supercilio dicam, [[quod]] tum hominibus [[non]] [[supercilium]] (finsterer [[Stolz]]), [[sed]] [[pignus]] [[rei]] publicae videbatur? Cic.: [[numquam]] principibus defuerunt, [[qui]] fronte [[tristi]] et gravi supercilio utilitati fisci [[contumaciter]] adessent, Plin. pan.: terrarum dominûm [[pone]] [[supercilium]], Mart. – b) [[Hochmut]], [[Stolz]], Vornehmtuerei, affinium grave [[supercilium]], lästiger H., Val. Max.: [[hunc]] Capuae Campano supercilio ac [[regio]] spiritu ([[Übermut]]) cum videremus, Cic.: ut [[plerique]] sunt, [[qui]] beneficia asperitate verborum et supercilio in [[odium]] adducunt, Sen.: [[pone]] [[profecto]] [[supercilium]], [[quo]] [[nunc]] [[mihi]] deditionem imperas, Vopisc.: ad ardua imperii supercilia [[etiam]] acerbitatem naturae adiungi, daß zum übermütigen [[Bewußtsein]] der Regentengewalt [[noch]] grausame [[Gemütsart]] hinzukomme, Amm.: divitiis demere [[supercilium]], dem R. seinen [[Hochmut]] [[benehmen]], Sen. – c) der [[Wink]], Hor. carm. 3, 1, 8. Claud. ep. ad Ser. 2, 58. Arnob. 4, 21 in. – II) übtr.: a) ([[wie]] [[ὀφρύς]]) der [[Vorsprung]], die [[Anhöhe]], [[Höhe]], [[Spitze]], [[supercilium]] clivosi tramitis, Verg.: tumuli, Liv.: [[supercilium]] quoddam excelsum nacti, Auct. b. Afr.: [[infimo]] [[stans]] supercilio, am Fuße der [[Anhöhe]], Liv. – u. der [[Rand]], das [[Gestade]], das [[Ufer]] eines Flusses [[supercilium]] [[amnis]], Apul.: supercilia Nili, fluminis [[Rheni]], Amm., riparum fluminalium, Amm. – das [[Gestade]], die [[Küste]] [[des]] Meeres, supercilia [[eius]] [[sinistra]], Amm. 22, 8. § 8. – u. poet. – der [[Gipfel]] [[des]] Scheiterhaufens, molle superc., Stat. Theb. 6, 63. – b) [[als]] t.t. der Baukunst: α) der [[Vorsprung]] der [[Säule]] usw., der überragende [[Rand]], der [[Überschlag]], Vitr. 3, 5, 3 (3, 3, 8). – β) die Oberschwelle der Türen, [[crassitudo]] supercilii, Vitr. 4, 6, 2: itinerum supercilia, die Überwölbungen der Gänge, Vitr. 4, 6, 5 (4, 7, 2).
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|lnetxt=supercilium supercili(i) N N :: [[eyebrow]]; [[frown]]; [[arrogance]]
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|trtx=Afrikaans: wenkbrou; Albanian: vetull; Arabic: حَاجِب‎; Egyptian Arabic: حاجب‎; Aragonese: cella, zella; Armenian: ունք, հոնք; Aromanian: sprindzeanã, sufrãmtseauã, dzeanã; Assamese: চেলাউৰি; Asturian: ceya; Azerbaijani: qaş; Bakhtiari: برگ‎; Baluchi: بروان‎; Bashkir: ҡаш; Basque: bekain; Bau Bidayuh: koning; Belarusian: брыво́; Bengali: ভুরু; Bikol Central: kiray; Bulgarian: ве́жда; Burmese: မျက်ခုံး; Catalan: cella; Cebuano: kilay; Central Dusun: kudou; Central Melanau: likau; Chinese Cantonese: 眼眉, 眼眉毛; Mandarin: 眉毛, 眼眉; Chuvash: куҫ; Classical Nahuatl: īxcuahmōlli; Coptic: ⲙⲉϫⲉⲛϩ; Cornish: abrans; Corsican: sopracigliu; Crimean Tatar: qaş; Czech: obočí; Dalmatian: čeja; Danish: øjenbryn; Dhivehi: އައިބްރޯ‎; Dupaningan Agta: kiray; Dutch: wenkbrauw; Elfdalian: ogenbråin; Esperanto: brovo; Estonian: kulmud; Faroese: eygnabrún, eygnabrúgv; Finnish: silmäkulma, kulma, kulmakarvat; French: sourcil; Friulian: cee, sorecee; Galician: sobrecella; Georgian: წარბი; German: Braue, Augenbraue; Alemannic German: [[Augbraame]]; Greek: [[φρύδι]]; Ancient Greek: [[ὀφρύς]]; Greenlandic: qallu; Guaraní: tyvyta; Hebrew: גַּבָּה‎; Hindi: अब्रू, भव; Hungarian: szemöldök; Icelandic: augabrún; Ido: brovo; Indonesian: alis; Inuktitut: ᖃᓪᓗ; Iranun: kirai; Irish: mala, fabhra; Italian: sopracciglio; Japanese: まゆ, 眉, まゆ毛, 眉毛; Kalmyk: күмсг; Kazakh: қас; Khmer: ចិញ្ចើម; Kimaragang: kudou; Korean: 눈썹; Kurdish Central Kurdish: بِرۆ‎; Northern Kurdish: birû; Kyrgyz: каш; Lao: ຄິ້ວ; Latgalian: izacs; Latin: [[supercilium]]; Latvian: uzacs; Lezgi: рацӏан; Lithuanian: antakis; Lotud: kudou, kiar; Luxembourgish: Aperhoer; Macedonian: веѓа; Malay: kening, bulu kening, alis, kirai; Maltese: ħaġeb; Manchu: ᡶᠠᡳᡨᠠᠨ; Manx: mollee; Maori: pewa; Mazanderani: بلفه‎; Meriam: iraw; Mongolian: хөмсөг; Navajo: anátʼéézh, anátsʼiin; Nepali: आँखीभौं; Ngazidja Comorian: nɗazi; Norman: soucile; Norwegian Bokmål: øyebryn, øyenbryn; Nynorsk: augebryn, augnebryn, augebrun, augnebrun; Occitan: ussa; Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic: брꙑ; Old English: oferbrū; Ossetian: ӕрфуг, ӕрфыг; Ottoman Turkish: ابرو‎, حاجب‎, قاش‎; Pashto: وروځه‎; Persian: ابرو‎, برو‎; Polish: brew; Portuguese: sobrancelha; Romanian: sprânceană, arcadă; Romansch: survantscheglia; Rungus: sambakon; Russian: бровь; Sabah Bisaya: kirai; Sami Inari: čalmekulme; Northern: gulbmi, gulbmeguolga; Skolt: čâʹlmmkuʹlmm; Southern: haermie; Sardinian: chíciu, cígiu; Scottish Gaelic: mala; Sebop: likau; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: обрва, веђа; Roman: obrva, veđa; Sicilian: supraccigghiu; Slovak: obočie; Slovene: obrv; Sorbian Lower Sorbian: wobwóco, wobwócyjo; Upper Sorbian: brjowka; Southern Altai: каш; Spanish: ceja; Swedish: ögonbryn; Tagal Murut: kurou; Tagalog: kilay; Tajik: абрӯ; Tamil: புருவம்; Tatar: каш; Telugu: కనుబొమ; Thai: ภมุ, คิ้ว; Tibetan: མིག་སྤུ; Timugon Murut: ruru; Tiwi: alangarrika, alangurrupwanga; Tocharian A: pärwāṃ; Tocharian B: pärwāne; Tok Pisin: gras bilong ai; Turkish: kaş; Turkmen: gaaş; Tuvan: хавак кирбии; Ukrainian: бро́ва; Urdu: ابرو‎; Uyghur: قاش‎; Uzbek: qosh; Vietnamese: lông mày; Volapük: logabob; Waray-Waray: kiray; Welsh: ael, aeliau; West Coast Bajau: kirei; West Frisian: eachbrau, winkbrau, wynbrau; White Winnebago: ceexahį; Yakut: хаас; Yiddish: ברעם‎; Zazaki: birwe; Zhuang: bwnda
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