English
superpose
From super- + pose.
Ancient Greek παύω ‘stop, end’
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Latin pausa ‘pause’
Vulgar Latin pausāre ‘to blin, cease, pause’
Old French poser ‘to put, place, stell, settle, lodge’
Middle English posen
English pose
Today it means
verb To place (an object) on top of another.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “superpose”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / superpose