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- Ancient Greek · derived fromπολύχρηστος“multipurpose, highly useful”
- English todaypolychrest
From Ancient Greek πολύχρηστος (polúkhrēstos, “multipurpose, highly useful”), from πολύς (polús) + χρηστός (khrēstós, “useful”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.