Etymograph

English

fluorochlorohydrocarbon

From fluoro- + chloro- + hydrocarbon.

A compound of fluoro- + chloro- + hydrocarbon

Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’

Latin fluor ‘flow’

English fluoro-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- ‘green, yellow’

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃rós

Proto-Hellenic *kʰlōrós ‘greenish-yellow, pale green’

Ancient Greek χλωρός ‘pale green’

English chloro-

Today it means

noun Any compound formally derived from a hydrocarbon by replacing some hydrogen atoms with fluorine and some with chlorine, (More commonly known as hydrochlorofluorocarbon)

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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