Etymology

isopach

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Today it means: A line on a chart joining parts of a stratigraphic unit that have the same thickness; an isopachous line. Full definition →

Ancient Greek παχύς
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαχύς“thick”
  2. English todayisopach

From iso- + Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”) (see pachy-).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπαχύς all →

pachy-pachysandra

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.