From Middle English superfluous, from Latin superfluus (“superfluous”), from superfluō (“overflow”), from super (“above, more than, over”) fluō (“flow”). Compare mellifluous and fluid, also from Latin. Literally corresponds to overflow, which is from Germanic, rather than Latin.
superfluous (comparative more superfluous, superlative most superfluous)
- In excess of what is required or sufficient.
With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.
excess of what is sufficient
- Armenian: ավելորդ (hy) (avelord)
- Asturian: superfluu
- Bulgarian: излишен (bg) (izlišen), ненужен (bg) (nenužen)
- Catalan: superflu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 多餘／多余 (zh) (duōyú)
- Czech: zbytečný (cs), nadbytečný
- Danish: overflødig (da)
- Dutch: overtollig (nl), overdadig (nl), overvloedig (nl)
- Esperanto: superflua
- Finnish: ylenpalttinen (fi), tarpeeton (fi), ylitsevuotavainen, liiallinen (fi)
- French: superflu (fr)
- Galician: superfluo
- German: überflüssig (de)
- Greek: περιττός (el) (perittós)
- Ancient: περισσός (perissós)
- Hungarian: felesleges (hu), fölösleges (hu), túlzott (hu)
- Icelandic: ofaukinn, ónauðsynlegur (is)
- Ido: superflua (io)
- Irish: iomarcach
- Italian: superfluo (it)
- Japanese: 冗長な (ja) (じょうちょうな, jōchō na)
- Latin: supervacuus, superfluus, supervacāneus, superforāneus
- Latvian: lieks
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: overflødig (no)
- Nynorsk: overflødig
- Ottoman Turkish: آرتق (artık)
- Persian: زیادی (fa) (ziyâdi)
- Polish: niepotrzebny (pl), zbyteczny (pl), nadmierny (pl)
- Portuguese: supérfluo (pt)
- Romanian: superfluu (ro), de prisos
- Russian: ли́шний (ru) (líšnij), изли́шний (ru) (izlíšnij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су̏вӣшан
- Roman: sȕvīšan (sh)
- Spanish: superfluo (es)
- Swedish: överflödig (sv)
- Ukrainian: за́йвий (zájvyj)
- Vietnamese: dư thừa
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