Etymology

chromameter

C3H4R1O1M3A1M3E1T1E1R1

Today it means: An instrument that is used to evaluate the colour of surfaces Full definition →

Ancient Greek χρῶμα
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromχρῶμα“color”
  2. English todaychromameter

From Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -meter.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekχρῶμα all →

chromosomechromiumchromatinchromachromo-chromothripsischromuledichromacydichromaticdichromicmonochromacypanchromiumthermochromytrichromacy

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.