English
hypercomplementemia
From hyper- + complement + -emia.
Formed from hyper- + complement + -emia
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’
English hyper-
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- ‘to fill’
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Latin pleō ‘Combining form used to form prefixed verbs…’
Latin compleō ‘to fill up’
Latin complēmentum ‘that which fills up or completes’
Middle English complement
English complement
Today it means
noun Increased levels of complement system proteins in the blood.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hypercomplementemia