chromatic
Meaningto do with colour
Common meaning: to do with colour
Other meanings: using all twelve semitones
- chromcolour, skinLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 897 · scan
- aticadjective ending: of that kind
Journey through time
- Greekχρῶμα‘colour, skin’
- Englishchromatic‘to do with colour’ · today
chrom also in: chromosomemonochrome
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek χρῶμα ‘colour, skin’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry χρῶμα, p. 897 · dictionary scan
Roots
- χρῶμα Greek “colour, skin”
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