Etymology

superfluidity

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Today it means: The frictionless flow that is characteristic of a fluid with zero viscosity, especially liquid helium at temperatures near absolute zero. Full definition →

English fluidity ← French fluidité ← 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. Frenchfluidité
  8. Englishfluidity
  9. English todaysuperfluidity

From super- + fluidity.

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