Etymology

overcount

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Today it means: To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another Full definition →

English count ← Middle English counten ← Anglo-Norman counter
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Latincomputō
  8. Anglo-Normancounter
  9. Middle Englishcounten
  10. Englishcount
  11. English todayovercount

From over- + count.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.