English
Heartbleed
Blend of heartbeat (“periodic signal generated to indicate normal operation of hardware or software”) + bleed.
A blend of heartbeat ‘periodic signal generated to indicate normal…’ + bleed
Proto-Germanic *blōþą ‘blood’
Proto-Germanic *blōdijaną ‘to bleed’
Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan ‘to bleed’
Old English blēdan ‘to bleed’
Middle English bleden ‘to cause to bleed’
English bleed
The story
Blend of heartbeat (‘periodic signal generated to indicate normal operation of hardware or software’) + bleed.
Today it means
name A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was disclosed and fixed in April 2014.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Heartbleed