English

hyperbarbarous

From hyper- + barbarous.

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Ancient Greek βάρβαρος ‘foreign, strange’

Latin barbarus ‘foreigner, savage’

Today it means

adj Very barbarous.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hyperbarbarous