par excellence

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ˌpɑːɹ ˌɛksəˈlɑːns/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Unadapted borrowing from French par excellence (“excellently, in an especially representative way; above all”), a calque of Latin per excellentiam, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κατ’ ἐξοχήν (kat’ exokhḗn).

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