Etymograph

English

hyperfastidious

From hyper- + fastidious.

Formed from hyper- + fastidious

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Latin fastīdium ‘a loathing, aversion, disgust, niceness of…’

Latin fastīdiōsus ‘passive: that feels disgust, disdainful,…’

English fastidious

Today it means

adj Extremely fastidious.

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

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