The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπολύς“many”
- English todaypolymer
From poly- + -mer, from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + μέρος (méros, “part”). Coined by Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1833, though his definition was quite different from the modern one.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπολύς all →
Polynesiapolytheismpoly-polyarchpolychetepolycroticpolygyridpolylecticpolyphyodont
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.