From Greek 'hypér' (over), from PIE *upér — the exact cognate of Latin 'super,' giving English two parallel prefixes from one root.
A prefix meaning 'over,' 'above,' 'beyond,' or 'excessive,' derived from Greek and used to form words indicating excess, abnormality, or transcendence of a norm.
From Greek 'hypér' (ὑπέρ, over, above, beyond), from PIE *upér (over, above). Greek 'hypér' is the exact cognate of Latin 'super' — both descend from the same PIE word and mean the same thing. English inherited both: 'hyper-' from Greek and 'super-' from Latin, giving the language
The word 'hyperbole' — exaggeration for rhetorical effect — is literally a 'throwing beyond' in Greek (hypér + bállein, to throw). It is the mirror image of 'symbol' (thrown together), 'parable' (thrown beside), and 'problem' (thrown forward). Greek rhetoric conceptualized figurative language