The prefix "extra-": what does it mean and what is the origin?

The prefix "extra": what does it mean and what is the origin?

  • In English, EXTRA means SUPER NORMS, for example: 1 1

    in Russian this word is used in the meaning of the BEST

  • "extra" means "the highest class". An example is "the master of the extroclass".

  • Earlier, in time immemorial, the word-prefix "Extra", along with "Ultra", in addition to entering the composition of complex words and phrases, for example: extra-fashionable, extra class, extra strength and so on, meaning "something out of bounds habitual "," beyond what was before "- also meant" the highest degree of category "when it comes to the classification of specialists," the highest grade "when it comes to a product or service.

    The gradation of grades of goods was, from the lowest to the highest quality of the goods, the following: the fourth category of goods, the fourth grade, was not used for all goods and quite rarely; mainly the third, second, first grade, and the highest grade. As a variety of the highest grade, the grade is the highest improved - "Lux" and the highest, the highest grade - "Extra", that is, not only improved, but also added to the main parameters that has not yet been in this product. Good luck.

  • In the Russian language there is word extra and prefix extra-... Both are of Latin origin. The word "extra" when applied to the names of varieties of tea, cold-pressed vegetable oil, etc. means "the highest, the best."

    Console extra- introduces into the meaning of the word an additional meaning "over", "except" or "outside", for example: extrasystole (outanother heart beat), extraordinary - extraordinary, extraordinary, that is abovenormal;

    extrapolation is a mathematical term for finding a value from a series of data Features its other values ​​being out of this series (antonym interpolation).

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