-chrome
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Colored:
着色：
polychrome.
彩色的 - Color; pigment:
染料；颜料：
urochrome.
尿黄质
语源
- From Greek khrōma [color]
源自 希腊语 khrōma [颜色]
-chrome
combining form in adjective, combining form in countable noun
colour, coloured, or pigment
⇒
monochrome
Origin
from Greek khrōma colour-chrome
1
variant of chrom- as the final element of a compound word:
polychrome.
Related Words
- autochrome
- cytochrome
- fluorochrome
- hemochrome
- heterochrome
- lipochrome
-chromea word element meaning 'colour', as in polychrome.
[Greek chroma]-chrome
\\\\ˌkrōm\\\\ noun combining form or adjective combining form
heliochrome
2. coloring matter
urochrome
\\\\ˌkrōm\\\\ noun combining form or adjective combining form
ETYMOLOGY Medieval Latin -chromat-, -chroma colored thing, from Greek chrōmat-, chrōma
1. colored thingheliochrome
2. coloring matter
urochrome
-chrome
color:
color:
endochrome, monochrome
-chrome
\(.)ˌkrōm\ noun combining form or adjective combining form
Etymology: Medieval Latin -chromat-, chroma colored thing, from Greek chrōmat-, chrōma color
1. : colored thing : colored
< monochrome >
2. : coloring matter
< endochrome >
1.
< monochrome >
2.
< endochrome >
-chrome
Suffix
- having a specified colour
- various pigments
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -chrome