Etymology

chronosome

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Ancient Greek χρόνος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχρόνος“time”
  2. English todaychronosome

from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + σῶμα (sôma, “body”)

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekχρόνος all →

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