English

hypertask

From hyper- + task.

Formed from hyper- + task

Proto-Indo-European *úp

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

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Latin taxō ‘to censure; to charge’

Latin taxa

Medieval Latin tasca

Old Northern French tasque

Middle English taske ‘task, tax’

English task

Today it means

noun An uncountably infinite number of operations that occur sequentially within a finite interval of time.

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

Etymograph / hypertask