Etymology

ultrarapid

U1L1T1R1A1R1A1P3I1D2

Today it means: Extraordinarily rapid; of utmost rapidity. Full definition →

English rapid ← Latin rapidus ← Middle French rapide
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Englishultra-
  2. Latinrapiō
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  4. Latinrapidus
  5. Middle Frenchrapide
  6. Latinrapidus
  7. Englishrapid
  8. English todayultrarapid

From ultra- + rapid.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.