Etymology

hyperlect

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Today it means: The variety of a language that is spoken by the aristocracy. Full definition →

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The story

From hyper- + -lect, Ancient Greek affixes meaning literally “overspeech”, that is, the speech of the overclass.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.