Superficies

Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 511

sfi-per-fish'ez, n. the upper /ace or burfare the o.iter face or part of a thing. [L. —super, above, and facies, face Superfine, sO'per-f In, adj,jine ab e others finer than ordinary [L super, above, and Fine.) Superfluity, su-p4r-fl