English

hyperelliptic

From hyper- + elliptic.

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- ‘to leave behind’

Ancient Greek λείπω ‘to leave’

Ancient Greek ἐλλείπω ‘I leave out, omit’

Ancient Greek ἐλλειπτικός ‘defective’

Today it means

adj Describing an extension of elliptic functions to complex numbers.

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Etymograph / hyperelliptic