English

hyperstress

From hyper- + stress.

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Latin stringō ‘to draw tight together’

Latin distringō ‘to stretch out, apart’

Old French destrecier ‘to distress’

Middle English destresse

Today it means

noun Excessive stress.

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

Etymograph / hyperstress