English
extraordinary
Extraordinary comes from Latin extrāōrdinārius; by surface analysis, extra- + ordinary.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextrāōrdinārius
- Englishearliest quotation 1787extraordinary
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextrāōrdinārius
- Englishearliest quotation 1787extraordinary
Earliest quotation: 1787, The New Annual Register:: “[…] the sum that will probably be wanted for…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’
birth, bar, prefer, broad, bread, fortune, burden, barrel, bearing, breeze, barn, bore, fury, baron, bark, berth, broom, fret, barrow, embargo, ferret, insufferable, furtive, bier, proffer, bahar, birr, bairn, burnish, barrette, 113 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti ‘to bear, carry’
bear, borne, phosphate, phosphorus, euphoria, dysphoria, semaphore, indifferently, phosphine, 91 more
through Proto-Italic *ferō ‘to carry, bear’
suffering, differently, differentiation, indifferent, infertility, deference, infertile, differentially, deferential, differentiable, differentiator, 68 more
through Latin ferō ‘to bear, carry, bring’
different, offer, difference, reference, relative, transfer, suffer, relation, relate, translation, referendum, differ, referee, fertility, translate, fertile, defer, confer, fertilization, infer, elated, elation, collation, fertilize, collate, dilate, efferent, oblate, 79 more
through Latin auferō ‘to take away’
through Latin ablātīvus
frustration, strangely, frustrate, infra, strangeness, ablative, estrange, 2 more
through Latin extrā ‘outside the order’
Today it means
adj Out of the ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin extrāōrdinārius / extraordinary