Etymology

supermetaphor

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Today it means: A grounding fact; a correspondance between the underlying truth and our ideas and constructions based on that truth. Full definition →

English metaphor ← Latin super- ← Proto-Italic *super
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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. Englishmetaphor
  8. English todaysupermetaphor

From super- + metaphor.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.