Etymograph

English

hyperstimulus

From hyper- + stimulus

Formed from hyper- + stimulus

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Latin stimulus ‘goad, prick’

English stimulus

Today it means

noun Any very large stimulus

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

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