chromo
noun
chromo
1 American
[kroh-moh]
/ ˈkroʊ moʊ /
noun
-
chromos
plural
chromo-
2
American
chromo-
1
British
combining form
-
indicating colour, coloured, or pigment
chromogen
-
indicating chromium
chromyl
chromo
2
British
/ ˈkrəʊməʊ /
noun
Usage
What does chromo- mean? Chromo- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “color.” It is used in many medical and scientific terms. Chromo- comes from the Greek chrôma, meaning “color” and is the source of the words chroma and chrome, among many others. The chemical element chromium is so named for the colorful compounds the metal can form. Chromo- is a variant of chrom-, as in chromesthesia, used when combined with words or word elements beginning with a consonant. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use chrom- article. A corresponding form of chromo- and chrom- combined to the end of words is -chrome, as in polychrome. Closely related to chromo- are the combining forms chromato- and chromat-.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chromo
By shortening; cf. -o
Example Sentences
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During the last three months of her pregnancy, pious, 24-year-old Mrs. Esperanza Sacramenta Rafael of Manila lay in bed gazing at a chromo of Christ pointing to his exposed, bleeding heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents and a curly-wigged chromo that hung over the mantel.
From Time Magazine Archive
On its face he found a gaudy chromo entitled "No. 528 Nature."
From Time Magazine Archive
Nature intended every man and woman to have 46 chromo somes per cell: 22 pairs of autosomes, which determine countless characteristics other than sex, and two gonosomes or sex chromosomes.
From Time Magazine Archive
I looked around and saw not a picture except an unframed chromo tacked over the mantel, till my eyes happened to rest on the old wooden clock.
From The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
That isn't a real steamer," said Patty whimsically; "it's a chromo- lithograph.
From Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells
Indeed, Vauquelin named this new metal after the Greek word for colour, chromos - because chromium is associated with an extraordinary array of colours.
From BBC ● May 22, 2015
The artists were bound to be influenced by the sugary religious chromos imported from Europe and tacked up in thousands of Haitian homes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eugene Field's Little Boy Blue and My Mother's Faith are next door to chromos, but they have an intact nostalgic tone with a true power to move.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ever since 1851, when Benjamin Talbot Babbitt, the father of packaged soap, got the idea of offering sentimental chromos for 25 Babbitt's Best Soap wrappers, premiums have helped sell thousands of items.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside Field Headquarters, the little bare wooden rooms were stripped of their few battered vases and old chromos, and plain wooden tables and chairs were set about.
From Our Army at the Front by Heywood Broun
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