surpa

surpa f (definite singular surpa, indefinite plural surper or surpor, definite plural surpene or surpone)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of sørpe

• surupa (archaic)

From a Vulgar Latin root *subrūpāre, from Latin rupes (“cliff”). Compare Aromanian surpu, surpari, old Abruzzese dialect surrupare, Sicilian sdirupari. Compare also Italian dirupare, Galician and Portuguese derrubar, Spanish derribar.

a surpa (third-person singular present surpă, past participle surpat) 1st conj.

1. to undermine, make fall, cave in
2. to annihilate, destroy, crumble, ruin

• (undermine): submina, săpa
• (destroy): distruge