778: extra, extraordinary, and extradition Jan 24, 2017
Words like 'extra', 'extraordinary', and 'extradition' may look etymologically similar to each other based on the 'ex-', but this is not exactly so. 'Extra', to be clear, is the most related any word could be to 'extraordinary' in that it is supposed that it was created as shortening, with similar forms existing in French and German. 'Extraordinary' itself comes from the Latin phrase 'extra ordinem' meaning ‘outside the normal daily events’. Meanwhile however, 'extradition' just means 'out of tradition', with 'ex-' meaning, 'from'; 'tradition' in this case means, 'delivery' which was historically common but now is extraordinary.
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