-chroous or -chroic
combining form in adjective
coloured in a specified way
⇒
isochroous
Origin
from Greek khrōs skin, complexion, colour-chroous
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “having a color” of the kind specified by the initial element:
isochroous.
Also, -chroic.
Origin
combining form representing Greek chrṓs skin, skin color; see -ous
Related Word
- -chroic
-chroous→ -chroic.
[suffix formed from the stem of Greek chroa surface, colour + -ous]-chroous
skin color:
skin color:
isochroous
-chro·ous
\krəwəs\ adjective combining form
Etymology: Greek -chroos, from chrōs skin, color — more at chromatic
: -colored
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