Etymology

myriorama

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Today it means: A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate cards so that they can be combined in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes. Full definition →

Ancient Greek μυρίος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὅραμα“sight”
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromμυρίος“countless, endless, infinite”
  3. English todaymyriorama

From Ancient Greek μυρίος (muríos, “countless, endless, infinite”) + Ancient Greek ὅραμα (hórama, “sight”). By surface analysis, myri- + -orama.

Words from the same roots

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