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English
Etymology
From German über (“above”, preposition), which is also used as a prefix (über-); cognate with over. Entered English through Nietzsche's use of the word Übermensch. Doublet of over, super, and hyper.
Pronunciation
Adjective
uber (not comparable)
- Super; high-level; high-ranking.
2006 February, GameAxis Unwired, number 30, page 4:people in Team GameAxis are no different from the rest of us although many would think them as uber geeks
2008, Laura Levine, Killing Bridezilla:The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane
2009, J. F. Lewis, ReVamped, page 208:I laughed, a deep croaking noise in the uber vamp's body
2009, Kurt Turrell, G.E.N.I.U.S. NOW: The Mastermind Blueprint, page 4:Moreover, this is a concrete venue for all businesses or organizations to champion a distinctive or necessary cause, and thereby secure “Uber Success” (off-the-charts results) for the future of their company or organization
Adverb
uber (not comparable)
- Very; super.
2008, Laura Levine, Killing Bridezilla:The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane
2009, Mark Driscoll with Gerry Breshears, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, page 268:Admittedly, churches do some incredibly goofy things when they pursue relevance for the sake of being uber hip and ultra cool. One pastor I know got so many piercings that he looked like a rack of lures at the Bass Pro Shop
2010 April 29, “'Losers' minus one”, in Pasadena Weekly:The film's parallel story depicts Max (Jason Patric) as an uber powerful operative, barking wild orders at right-hand man Wade (Holt McCallany)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Betawi
Pronunciation
Verb
uber
- to chase
Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
uber
- second-person singular imperative of ubrat
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
From Betawi uber.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ubər/
- Hyphenation: u‧ber
Verb
uber
- to chase
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *ouðer, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (r/n-stem, with r made common to all cases). Cognates include Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् (ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ (oûthar), Old English ūder, and modern English udder.
Pronunciation
Noun
ūber n (genitive ūberis); third declension
- (anatomy) a teat, pap, dug, udder, a lactating breast
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.117–121:
- huic fuit haedōrum māter fōrmōsa duōrum,
inter Dictaeōs cōnspiciendā gregēs,
cornibus āeriīs atque in sua terga recurvīs,
ūbere, quod nūtrīx posset habēre Iovis,
lac dabat illā deō.- She had , a beautiful mother of two kids, a remarkable sight among the flocks of Dicte, with horns rising upwards and curving over her back, with an udder, such as the wet-nurse of Jupiter would have; she was giving milk to the god.
(See Amalthea (mythology).)
- richness, fruitfulness
- Synonyms: abundantia, cōpia, fertilitās, ūbertās, affluentia, magnitūdō
- Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
Adjective
ūber (genitive ūberis, comparative ūberior, superlative ūberrimus, adverb ūber or ūbertim); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
- fruitful, productive
- Synonyms: fecundus, fertilis, frūgifer, opīmus, dīves, dītis
- copious, full, rich
- Synonyms: abundāns, cōpiōsus, largus, cumulātus, fēcundus
- Antonyms: vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).
Adverb
ūber (comparative ūbius, superlative ūbissimē)
- fruitfully, copiously, plentifully
- (of style) fully, copiously
Usage notes
The positive form of the adverb is not attested in Classical Latin.
Descendants
References
- “uber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “uber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- uber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.