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Where does “extreme” come from?

Extreme comes from Old French extreme, from Latin extremus meaning "outermost," derived from Latin extra meaning "outside," which traces to Proto-Indo-European h₁eǵʰs.

extreme (English): Of a place, the most remote, farthest or...

Definitions

  1. Of a place, the most remote, farthest or...

Ancestry of “extreme”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchextreme—
2Latinextrēmus—
3Proto-Italiceksterisemos—

Words derived from “extreme”

  • extremely
  • extremist
  • extremism
  • extremest
  • extremal
  • extreamly
  • extremer
  • extremeness
  • extremophile
  • extremophilic
  • nonextreme
  • nonextremist
  • extremize
  • extremization
  • antiextremism
  • extremality
  • nonextremal
  • antiextremist
  • extremally
  • unextreme
  • extremogram
  • polyextremotolerant
  • extremify
  • superextremal
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