English

hypernumber

From hyper- + number.

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Proto-Indo-European *nem- ‘to distribute; to give, take’

Proto-Italic *nomezos

Latin numerus ‘number’

Anglo-Norman noumbre

Middle English number

Today it means

noun A kind of number more complex than a hypercomplex number.

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Etymograph / hypernumber