English
hypermortalityhypermortality
From hyper- + mortality or hyper- + mortal + -ity.
Formed from hyper- + mortality
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’
English hyper-
Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to die’
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Latin mors ‘death’
Latin mortālis ‘relating to death’
Latin mortālitās
Old French mortalite ‘death’
English mortality
Today it means
noun Markedly high mortality, more than what might otherwise be expected (in any given disease or state of health).
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