Definition of "sopra" [‖So•pra]

• Above; before; over; upon. (adverb)

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• "My half-Tuesday in Rome included the requisite gallery stop and a self-guided walking tour via the Tazza d'Oro coffee bar, Pantheon, 14th-century Santa Maria sopra Minerva church and ruins of Trajan's Market."
• "Come attore epoch un po 'overacting, leggermente sopra le righe, matriarch sempre presently alla collaborazione e molto disponibile."
• "On the morning of June 22, 1633 in the hall of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minvera in Rome, Galileo Galilei knelt before the Lord-Cardinal Inquisitors-General and publicly abjured his false opinion that the sun was the motionless center of the universe."