Where does “hypervitaminosis” come from?

hypervitaminosis (English) comes from English vitamin, from English vitamine, from English amine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é.

hypervitaminosis (English): Any medical condition resulting from excessive...

Definitions

  1. Any medical condition resulting from excessive...

Ancestry of “hypervitaminosis”, step by step

hypervitaminosis traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English vitamin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvitaminAny of a specific group of organic compounds...
2EnglishvitamineObsolete form of vitamin
3EnglishamineA functional group formally derived from ammonia...
4English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
5French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
6French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
7Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
8Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
9Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
10Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

via English hyper

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishhyperhyperactive; energetic; overly diligent;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from English -ine →Every word from French -ine →