For the Sturmgeist album see Über .Über () comes from the German language. It is a cognate of both Latin super and Greek ???? (hyper), as well as English over (as in "overkill"). During the 2000s, über also became a synonym for super; e.g. überleet = superleet, generally with a slightly intensified meaning. Über is commonly written as uber in English, though with slightly different meaning.One of the first popular modern uses of the word as a synonym in English for super was a Saturday Night Li