Lewis & Short

Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.

sŭperjectĭo, ōnis, f. [superjacio].

  1. * I. Lit., a throwing over or on: vestium, Arn. 3, 108.
  2. II. Trop., in rhet., an exaggeration, hyperbole, Quint. 8, 6, 67.