superflu

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Italic *super

Latin super

Latin super-lbor.

English super-

English flu

English superflu

From super- + flu.

Pronunciation

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Noun

superflu (usually uncountable, plural superflus)

1. Any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent, or is unusually unresponsive to treatment.

   Alternative form: super flu

   Hypernyms: flu, influenza < infectious disease < disease < condition

   Hyponym: Hong Kong flu

   • 2015 July 23, Sloane Crosley, “It’s the End of the World as She Knows It”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In the wake of the superflus and cataclysmic events, male writers tend to jump to that unholy trinity of rape, murder and cannibalism.

Related terms

• flunami
• Tamiflu

Anagrams

• purseful

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin superfluus.

Adjective

superflu (feminine supèrflua, masculine plural superflus, feminine plural supèrflues)

1. superfluous

Derived terms

• supèrfluament

Related terms

• superfluïtat

Further reading

• “superflu”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “superflu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “superflu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “superflu”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin superfluus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pɛʁ.fly/

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Adjective

superflu (feminine superflue, masculine plural superflus, feminine plural superflues)

1. superfluous

Derived terms

• superfluité

Further reading

• “superflu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012