ultra-

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Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Latin ūls Proto-Indo-European *-teros? Latin -ter Old Latin -ād Latin -ā Latin ultrābor. English ultra- Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).

1. Greater than normal quantity or importance, as in ultrasecret.
2. Beyond, on the far side of, as in ultraviolet.
3. Beyond, outside of, as in ultraterrestrial.
4. Excessively, to an extreme, as in ultramicroscopic.

   “In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.”

5. intensely, extremely, or exceptional