Etymograph

English

hypoactivity

Hypoactivity comes from Latin āctīvitās ‘activity, movement, action’, from agō ‘to act, to behave’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éǵeti‘to be driving’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*agō‘to drive’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEagō‘to act, to behave’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEāctīvus‘active’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEāctīvitās‘activity, movement, action’
  7. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600activité
  8. English1500–presentactivity
  9. Englishearliest quotation 2015hypoactivity

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂éǵeti‘to be driving’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*agō‘to drive’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEagō‘to act, to behave’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEāctīvus‘active’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEāctīvitās‘activity, movement, action’
  7. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600activité
  8. English1500–presentactivity
  9. Englishearliest quotation 2015hypoactivity

Earliest quotation: 2015, Double Virus Vector Infection to the Prefrontal Network of t: “Various psychiatric disorders are suggested to be related with…”

A compound of hypo- + activity

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘under, below’

Ancient Greek ὑπό ‘under’

English hypo-

Latin āctīvitās ‘activity’

Middle French activité

English activity

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

suggest, register, essay, gesture, acre, digest, congestion, agrarian, belligerent, progesterone, gestation, ingestion, ingest, agitate, axiomatic, agger, samaj, gerund, gestion, 128 more

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti ‘to be driving’

strategy, agony, antagonist, axiom, reactionary, antagonism, agonist, antagonize, stratagem, glucagon, agonize, 102 more

through Proto-Italic *agō ‘to drive’

reaction, transaction, unambiguous, reagent, ambiguously, 80 more

through Latin agō ‘to act, to behave’

act, agency, agent, action, actual, actor, agenda, examine, examination, actively, ambiguous, squat, agile, assay, radioactive, ambiguity, enact, inactive, agility, agitation, cogent, actuator, retroactive, exigent, actuation, inexact, actuate, redact, 92 more

through Latin āctīvus ‘active’

active, activate, radium, 27 more

through English activity

hyperactivity, 18 more

Today it means

noun The condition of being hypoactive

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- / hypoactivity