Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polychromic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: poly-chromic
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Polychromatic; many-coloured.

adj

Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of chromium.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English chromic English polychromic From poly- + chromic.

Inflected Forms

more polychromic (comparative) most polychromic (superlative)

Synonyms

polychromatic polychrome

Questions

What does polychromic mean?: Polychromatic; many-coloured.
Where does polychromic come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English chromic English polychromic From poly- + chromic.

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