Etymology

superreality

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Today it means: The quality of being superreal. Full definition →

English reality ← French réalité ← Medieval Latin reālitā
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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. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁ís
  9. Proto-Italic*reis
  10. Classical Latinrēs
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  13. Latinreālis
  14. Medieval Latinreālitā
  15. Frenchréalité
  16. Englishreality
  17. English todaysuperreality

From super- + reality.

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