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Prefix

First known as a prefix, meaning "above", "beyond", "on top", "besides", super- has a long history in the English language and has since evolved into a useful adjective and expletive as well.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the use of super- evolved as follows:

A certain number of important Latin compounds, chiefly verbs, belong to the classical period, but the great majority are of later date, and many are recorded first from Christian writing. As a living prefix in English super- first appears about the middle of the 15th c.; it became frequent in Elizabethan times, and the 17th c. it was very widely used. In more recent times, it has been extensively introduced into the nomenclature of chemistry and other sciences as a correlation to sub-.

Words with "super" as a prefix include:

• superscript
• supersonic
• supercentenarian