Etymology

isothermobath

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Today it means: A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean. Full definition →

Ancient Greek βαθύς
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromβαθύς“deep”
  2. English todayisothermobath

From iso- + thermo- + Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús, “deep”) (see bathy-).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekβαθύς all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.