Etymology

superagency

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Today it means: An agency with unusually far-reaching powers Full definition →

English agency ← Medieval Latin agēntia ← Latin super-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Medieval Latinagēntia
  8. Englishagency
  9. English todaysuperagency

From super- + agency.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.