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Devac  ·  37 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 19, 2025

    We are doing the latin thread here now.!

OK, and like all Latin users throughout history, let's actually talk about Greek.

Well, 'hyper' usually means over or beyond or across with the genitive and about a bazillion things when with accusative: exceeding the measure, over a place, higher-or-equal than, preceeding... It's like overcomplicated Latin super, which usually means 'above' regardless of context.

Meta, as a prefix with short e, can mean 'concerning a set (like community or herd or tools)', 'behind', or - because classical languages hate consistency - 'ahead of'. It's one of those "just keeps getting more contextual meanings with every text" words. EDIT: I think it can also mean 'about'? Both as in "let's talk about it" and "about yey big", like latin circa.

Omni is just a nice Latin adjective, means 'everything', 'whole' or 'all', depending if joined singular or plural/collective noun. It's similar to Greek pan, which has an added meaning of all-encompassing or combining quality.

Unless I got confused by my own word salad, which is likely, 'beyond of all combined everythings, ahead before everythings over all' would therefore be hyper-meta-pan-omni, hyper-meta-omni-pan-omni

EDIT2: Thanks, I really needed some impromptu fun today.