supernumerary in Latin

supernumerary in Latin

What does "supernumerary" mean?

1. noun Someone who works alongside a group or office but is not one of its regular members.
   "The judge was a supernumerary, helping the regular judges whenever there was a surplus amount of work."
2. noun An extra performer in a film or play, usually without any lines.
   "Though little is known about Noble Luke Usher before his first recorded performance in Washington, D.C., in 1800, it is certain that he made the rounds of the eastern theatres as a supernumerary before as well as after that year."
3. noun Something present in addition to the normal or expected amount.
4. noun An animal that has not paired up with a mate and so remains alone.
   "The best evidence so far that social supernumeraries are physically capable of bettering their lot concerns not rodents but birds."

supernumerary in a sentence

• The judge was a supernumerary, helping the regular judges whenever there was a surplus amount of work.
• Though little is known about Noble Luke Usher before his first recorded performance in Washington, D.C., in 1800, it is certain that he made the rounds of the eastern theatres as a supernumerary before as well as after that year.
• The best evidence so far that social supernumeraries are physically capable of bettering their lot concerns not rodents but birds.

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