Etymology

ultraviolence

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Today it means: Unnecessary, unprovoked (usually brutal) violence; violent acts simply for the thrill and entertainment of it. Full definition →

English violence ← Middle English violence ← Old French violence
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  2. Latinūls
  3. Latinultrā
  4. Englishultra-
  5. Latinviolēns /violentus
  6. Latinviolentia
  7. Old Frenchviolence
  8. Middle Englishviolence
  9. Englishviolence
  10. English todayultraviolence

From ultra- + violence.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.