palindrome
Meaningrunning back
Common meaning: a word reading the same backwards
- palinback, again (Greek palin)
- droma run; a racecourseLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 212 · scan
‘back, again (Greek palin)’ + ‘a run’ → palindrome
Journey through time
- Greekδρόμος‘a run’
- Englishpalindrome‘a word reading the same backwards’ · today
drom also in: syndromehippodrome
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 δρόμος ‘a run; a racecourse’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry δρόμος, p. 212 · dictionary scan
Roots
- δρόμος Greek “a run; a racecourse”
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