The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀχρωμάτιστος“uncolored”
- English todayachromatic
From Ancient Greek ἀχρωμάτιστος (akhrōmátistos, “uncolored”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”), equivalent to a- + chromatic; compare French achromatique.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.