English

hypercellular

From hyper- + cellular.

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- ‘to cover’

Latin cella ‘a small room, a hut, storeroom’

New Latin cellula ‘cell’

New Latin cellulāris

Today it means

adj Having a greater than usual number of cells

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hypercellular