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Where does “hyperdeficiency” come from?

hyperdeficiency (English) comes from English deficiency, from English deficient, from Latin dēficiens, from Latin deficere, from Latin defectus, from Latin deficio, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.

hyperdeficiency (English): Extreme deficiency; The quality of being...

Definitions

  1. Extreme deficiency; The quality of being...

Ancestry of “hyperdeficiency”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdeficiencyInadequacy or incompleteness; An insufficiency,...
2EnglishdeficientLacking something essential; "often construed...
3Latindēficiens—
4Latindeficerepresent active infinitive of dēficiō;...
5Latindefectusfailure; absence; weakness, failing, defect
6LatindeficioI withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,...
7Latinfaciō—
8Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
9Latin-tōrius—
10Latin-tor-er
11Proto-Italic-tōr—
12Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
13Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →