FromProto-Hellenic *kʰrṓwmə , and related toχρώς ( khrṓs ,“ surface of the body, skin (color) ” ) ; see there for more.[ 1]
IPA (key ) : /kʰrɔ̂ː.ma/ →/ˈxro.ma/ →/ˈxro.ma/ χρῶμᾰ • (khrômă ) n (genitive χρώμᾰτος ) ;third declension
skin (esp. the human body) colour (esp. of the skin or body) ;pigment complexion character ofstyle inwriting ;ornaments chromatic scale ;music Greek:χρώμα ( chróma ) → Catalan:croma → Dutch:chromo- → English:chroma ,chromo- ,chromato- ,-chrome → French:chrome ,chromo- ,-chrome (see there for further descendants )→ Galician:croma ,cromo → Hungarian:kromo- → Italian:cromo ,cromo- ,-cromo ,cromia ,-cromia → Polish:chromo- ,chromato- ,-chromia → Portuguese:cromo- ,cromo → Sicilian:crumu ,crumu- ,-crumu ,crumìa ,-crumìa ,crùmatu- → Spanish:croma → Translingual:chroma “χρῶμα ”, inLiddell & Scott (1940 ),A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press “χρῶμα ”, inLiddell & Scott (1889 ),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers χρῶμα inBailly, Anatole (1935 ),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français , Paris: Hachette Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ),English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language [1] , London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited .Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ),English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language [2] , London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited , pages143 ,144 χρῶμα , in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion ] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese),University of Chicago , since 2011