Etymograph

English

supercluster

From super- + cluster.

A compound of super- + cluster

Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘to be cold, to freeze’

Proto-Germanic *klas-

Old English cluster ‘cluster, bunch, branch’

Middle English cluster ‘bunch, cluster, spray’

English cluster

Today it means

noun An extended group of clusters of galaxies.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “supercluster”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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