Etymology

supercharacter

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Today it means: A superhero or supervillain. Full definition →

English character ← Middle English caracter ← Old French caractere
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Ancient Greekχαράσσω (kharássō)
  8. Ancient Greekχαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)
  9. Latincharactēr
  10. Old Frenchcaractere
  11. Middle Englishcaracter
  12. Englishcharacter
  13. English todaysupercharacter

From super- + character.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.