Etymology

kaleidograph

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Today it means: A late 19th or early 20th century device for duplicating documents that use colored ink, consisting of a tray with a rubbery substance that takes an impression of the document and then transfers it onto blank sheets of paper. Full definition →

Ancient Greek καλός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκαλός“beautiful”
  2. English todaykaleidograph

From Ancient Greek καλός (kalós, “beautiful”) + -graph.

Words from the same roots

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