Etymology

superfluid

S1U1P3E1R1F4L1U1I1D2

Today it means: A substance, such as liquid helium, that exhibits superfluidity. Full definition →

English fluid ← Middle English fluid ← Latin fluidus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*bʰlewH-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*bʰluH-yé-ti?
  10. Latinfluō
  11. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  12. Latinfluidus
  13. Middle Englishfluid
  14. Englishfluid
  15. English todaysuperfluid

From super- + fluid.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.