English

hyperprior

From hyper- + prior.

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘forwards, before’

Proto-Italic *pri ‘before’

Proto-Italic *priōs ‘former, earlier’

Latin prior ‘earlier, former’

English prior

Today it means

noun A prior distribution on a hyperparameter.

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