Etymology

chromodynamics

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Today it means: The study of the relationship between those quarks that possess the quantum property of color, and exchange gluons; more fully quantum chromodynamics. Full definition →

English dynamics ← French dynamique ← Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)
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  1. Proto-Hellenic*kʰrṓwmə
  2. Ancient Greekχρῶμᾰ (khrômă)
  3. Englishchromo-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dewh₂-
  5. Proto-Hellenic*dunamai
  6. Ancient Greekδῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
  7. Ancient Greekδύναμις (dúnamis)
  8. Ancient Greekδυναμικός (dunamikós)
  9. Frenchdynamique
  10. Englishdynamic
  11. Englishdynamics
  12. English todaychromodynamics

From chromo- + dynamics.

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