# uber
## English
### Alternative forms

* über, ueber

### Etymology

From German über (“above”, preposition), which is also used as a prefix (über-); cognate with over. Entered English through Nietzsche's use of the word Übermensch. Doublet of over, super, and hyper.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /uːbə/, (Germanicized) /ˈyːbə/
* (General American) IPA: /uːbəɹ/
* Rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)

### Adjective

uber (not comparable)
* Super; high-level; high-ranking.
** 2006 February, GameAxis Unwired, number 30, page 4:people in Team GameAxis are no different from the rest of us although many would think them as uber geeks
** 2008, Laura Levine, Killing Bridezilla:The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane
** 2009, J. F. Lewis, ReVamped, page 208:I laughed, a deep croaking noise in the uber vamp's body
** 2009, Kurt Turrell, G.E.N.I.U.S. NOW: The Mastermind Blueprint, page 4:Moreover, this is a concrete venue for all businesses or organizations to champion a distinctive or necessary cause, and thereby secure “Uber Success” (off-the-charts results) for the future of their company or organization

### Adverb

uber (not comparable)
* Very; super.
** 2008, Laura Levine, Killing Bridezilla:The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane
** 2009, Mark Driscoll with Gerry Breshears, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, page 268:Admittedly, churches do some incredibly goofy things when they pursue relevance for the sake of being uber hip and ultra cool. One pastor I know got so many piercings that he looked like a rack of lures at the Bass Pro Shop
** 2010 April 29, “'Losers' minus one”, in Pasadena Weekly:The film's parallel story depicts Max (Jason Patric) as an uber powerful operative, barking wild orders at right-hand man Wade (Holt McCallany)

#### Derived terms

* Uber

### Noun

uber (plural ubers)
* (sometimes proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of Uber, a rideshare journey, vehicle, or driver.

### Anagrams

* buer, bure, ebru, erub, Bure, Rueb, rube, Rube, Brue, Reub

## Betawi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ubər/
* Rhymes: -ər
* Hyphenation: u‧ber

### Verb

uber
* to chase

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈubɛr]
* Hyphenation: uber

### Verb

uber
* second-person singular imperative of ubrat

### Anagrams

* beru
* erbu
* rube

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Betawi uber.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ubər/
* Hyphenation: u‧ber

### Verb

uber
* to chase

### Further reading

* “uber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ouðer, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (r/n-stem, with r made common to all cases). Cognates include Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् (ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ (oûthar), Old English ūder, and modern English udder.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈuː.ber/, [ˈuːbɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈu.ber/, [ˈuːber]

### Noun

ūber n (genitive ūberis); third declension
* (anatomy) a teat, pap, dug, udder, a lactating breast
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.117–121:huic fuit haedōrum māter fōrmōsa duōrum, inter Dictaeōs cōnspiciendā gregēs, cornibus āeriīs atque in sua terga recurvīs, ūbere, quod nūtrīx posset habēre Iovis, lac dabat illā deō.She had [a goat], a beautiful mother of two kids, a remarkable sight among the flocks of Dicte, with horns rising upwards and curving over her back, [and] with an udder, such as the wet-nurse of Jupiter would have; she was giving milk to the god. (See Amalthea (mythology).)
* richness, fruitfulness
    Synonyms: abundantia, cōpia, fertilitās, ūbertās, affluentia, magnitūdō
    Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: udzir, udzãri
* Franco-Provençal: uvro
* Friulian: luvri
* Galician: ubre
* Italian: uvero, ubero
* Portuguese: ubre, úbere
* Romanian: uger
* Romagnol: uver
* Romansch: iver, eiver, üver
* Sicilian: ùbbiru
* Spanish: ubre

### Adjective

ūber (genitive ūberis, comparative ūberior, superlative ūberrimus, adverb ūber or ūbertim); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
* fruitful, productive
    Synonyms: fecundus, fertilis, frūgifer, opīmus, dīves, dītis
* copious, full, rich
    Synonyms: abundāns, cōpiōsus, largus, cumulātus, fēcundus
    Antonyms: vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus

#### Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

### Adverb

ūber (comparative ūbius, superlative ūbissimē)
* fruitfully, copiously, plentifully
* (of style) fully, copiously

#### Usage notes

The positive form of the adverb is not attested in Classical Latin.

### Related terms

* ūberō
* ūbertās
* ūbertim
* ūbertō

### Descendants

* Catalan: ubèrrim, ⇒ uberós
* Italian: ubere, uberrimo, ⇒ ubertoso
* ⇒ English: uberous

### References

* “uber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “uber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* uber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.