Etymograph

English

hyperquantum

From hyper- + quantum.

Formed from hyper- + quantum

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷéh₂onts ‘how much, how many’

Proto-Italic *kʷāntos ‘how much, many’

Latin quantus ‘how much’

Late Latin quantum

English quantum

Today it means

adj Pertaining to values at which a quantum-mechanical equation approaches infinity.

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