Etymology

isobront

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Today it means: An isoline drawn through geographical points at which a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously. Full definition →

Ancient Greek βροντή
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromβροντή“thunder”
  2. English todayisobront

From iso- + Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) (see bronto-).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekβροντή all →

BronteBrontëbrontidebronto-brontographbrontomancybrontometerthunder beast

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.