Etymology

Coined in the late 1880s as a back-formation from hypercatalectic, from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερκαταληκτικός ‎(huperkatalēktikós), from ὑπερ- ‎(huper-, “over”) + καταληκτικός ‎(katalēktikós, “incomplete”)