Etymograph

English

hyperdeficient

From hyper- + deficient.

Formed from hyper- + deficient

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

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Proto-Italic *fakjō ‘to make’

Latin facio ‘to make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect’

Latin deficiō ‘to lack, fail, be wanting’

Latin deficiens ‘failing, disappointing’

English deficient

Today it means

adj Extremely deficient.

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

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