English

Alternative forms

über ueber

Adjective

uber ‎(not comparable)

1. Super; high-level; high-ranking
   • 2006 February, GameAxis Unwired, page 4:

     people in Team GameAxis are no different from the rest of us although many would think them as uber geeks

   • 2008, Laura Levine, Killing Bridezilla:

     The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane

   • 2009, J. F. Lewis, ReVamped, page 208:

     I laughed, a deep croaking noise in the uber vamp's body

   • 2009, Kurt Turrell, G.E.N.I.U.S. NOW: The Mastermind Blueprint, page 4:

     Moreover, this is a concrete venue for all businesses or organizations to champion a distinctive or necessary cause, and thereby secure “Uber Success” (off-the-charts results) for the future of their company or organization

Adverb

uber ‎(not comparable)

1. Very; super
   • 2008, Laura Levine, Killing Bridezilla:

     The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane

   • 2009, Mark Driscoll, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, page 268:

     Admittedly, churches do some incredibly goofy things when they pursue relevance for the sake of being uber hip and ultra cool. One pastor I know got so many piercings that he looked like a rack of lures at the Bass Pro Shop

   • 2010 April 29, “'Losers' minus one”, in Pasadena Weekly:

     The film's parallel story depicts Max (Jason Patric) as an uber powerful operative, barking wild orders at right-hand man Wade (Holt McCallany)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewHdʰr̥-, *h₁owHdʰr̥-, *h₁uHdʰr̥- ‎(“udder”) (r/n-stem, with r made common to all cases). Cognates include Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् ‎(ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ ‎(outhar), Old and modern English udder.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.ber/

Noun

ūber n ‎(genitive ūberis); third declension

1. (anatomy) A teat, pap, dug, udder, a lactating breast
2. richness, fruitfulness

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Descendants

Adjective

ūber m, f, n ‎(genitive ūberis); third declension

1. fruitful, productive
2. copious, full, rich

Inflection

Third declension.

Adverb

ūber ‎(comparable ūbius, superlative ūbissimē)

1. fruitfully, copiously, plentifully
2. (of style) fully, copiously

Usage notes

The positive form of the adverb is not attested in Classical Latin.

Related terms

• ūberō
• ūbertās
• ūbertim
• ūbertō

Descendants

• English: uberous

References

• uber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• uber in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “uber”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.