soprano
suh-PRAH-noh · noun
Origin
Borrowed from Italian soprano, which traces back to Vulgar Latin *superānus, an adjective built on the Latin preposition super, meaning "above."
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Related words
It's a doublet of sovereign, which reached English through Old French but ultimately comes from the same Latin root meaning "above."