text: In English the word ultra appears only in the late eighteenth century: OED: ultra adj. and noun and ultra prep. However, there may have been a considerable (formal as well as semantic) overlap between Anglo-Norman outre and the English word utter, the comparative of the Germanic adverb out, which was used both adverbially and as an adjective (OED: utter a. and utter adv., MED :outre a. comp. and outre adv. comp.). In addition (and within Anglo-Norman), the relatively rare adjectival use of outre sometimes seems to overlap with ​autre1, to the extent that in the case of certain attestations the form can be considered a variant spelling or a misreading of autre (e.g. ‘bref de dreit passe l’un e l’outre' Casus Plac lxxxvii.43).