Etymograph

English

hyperlens

From hyper- + lens.

A compound of hyper- + lens

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Latin lēns ‘lentil’

English lens

Today it means

noun A nanostructured metamaterial that produces magnified images of objects smaller than the wavelength of the light used

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

Etymograph / hyperlens