Etymology

dichromic

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Today it means: furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three Full definition →

Ancient Greek χρῶμα
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχρῶμα“color”
  2. English todaydichromic

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

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekχρῶμα all →

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