Etymograph

English

hypersecretion

From hyper- + secretion.

A compound of hyper- + secretion

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sift, separate, divide’

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Latin cernō ‘to see, to discern’

Latin sēcernō ‘to put apart, sunder, sever, separate, divide’

Latin sēcrētiō ‘separation’

French sécrétion

English secretion

Today it means

noun Excessive secretion.

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

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