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- Hebrew · calque ofעַל־אֱלֹהִי“beyond-godly”
- English todaymetadivine
From meta- + divine, a calque of Hebrew עַל־אֱלֹהִי (ʿal-ʾĕlōhî, “beyond-godly”), הֲוָיָה עַל־אֱלֹהִית (hăwāyāh ʿal-ʾĕlōhît̲, “beyond-godly existence”) as used by Yehezkel Kaufmann.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.