Where does “hypersecretion” come from?
I need to work through this chain carefully, tracing from oldest to newest as etymology should flow.
From the chain provided (newest to oldest):
- English secretion
- Ancient Greek ὑπέρ
- Proto-Indo-European upér
- Latin -tio
- Latin se-
- Latin suus
- Proto-Indo-European krey-
- Proto-Indo-European swoyos
Let me reconstruct the proper etymological path (oldest to newest):
Proto-Indo-European swoyos → Latin suus (one's own)
Proto-Indo-European krey- → (relates to secretion/separation)
Latin se- (from suus, meaning "apart")
Latin -tio (nominalization suffix)
Latin secretio (the act of setting apart)
Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hyper, meaning "over/beyond")
Proto-Indo
hypersecretion (English): Excessive secretion
Ancestry of “hypersecretion”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | secretion | any substance that is secreted by an organism;... |
| 2 | French | sécrétion | secretion |
| 3 | Latin | sēcrētiō | — |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | — |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | — |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |