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Where does “chromophoric” come from?

chromophoric (English) comes from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem, from Latin im- — in.

chromophoric (English): Of or relating to a chromophore; Coloured

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to a chromophore; Coloured

Ancestry of “chromophoric”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
2EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
3Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
4Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
5Spanishimagenimage
6Italianimmagineimage; imago
7Latinimāginem—
8Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
9Latinīn-—
10Latinîn—
11Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
12Proto-Italicenin
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “chromophoric”

  • multichromophoric
  • bichromophoric
  • interchromophoric
  • dichromophoric
  • intrachromophoric
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