Etymograph

English

hyperfinite

From hyper- + finite.

Formed from hyper- + finite

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Latin fīnis ‘boundary’

Latin fīniō ‘to finish’

Latin fīnītus ‘finished, terminated, having been finished or…’

Middle English fynyte

English finite

Today it means

adj Both finite and approximately finite dimensional

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

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