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
Definitions
- 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 | separation |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 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 |