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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1797, Vauquelin|origins=grc χρῶμα}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kʁom/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''chrome''' ''m'' (uncountable)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Crome'' in music (1562); ''chrôme'' (1797).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|χρῶμα|tr=khrôma|t=colour of the skin; colour; ornament of style; chromatic music]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|2, 656a) through [[la|chrōma]] according to Rey and the Petit Robert,^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) derived from [[m|grc|χρώς|tr=khrṓs|t=skin; complexion]], of unknown origin.^(DHLF 1992) The metal was so named because its compounds have bright colours.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Maurice Scève (1562) uses ''crome'' in music for a sharp, a sense revived in 1832 and called old from 1842.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The technical senses taken from Greek, the musical “sharp” and the rhetorical “figure of style” (1753), did not last.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) In 1797 the chemist Vauquelin adopted ''chrôme'', proposed by Haüy, for the hard, shining greyish-white metal he had isolated, with ''chromate'' and ''chromique''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ In the 20th century ''les chromes'' became the chromium-plated parts of a car or bicycle, and ''chromé'' an everyday word^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007); ''chromer'' is from 1927.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007) The Greek word also gave the element ''chromo-'' of ''chromolithographie'' (1837), shortened to ''chromo''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1562 – ''Crome'' “sharp” in music (Scève).^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1753 – A figure of rhetoric (''Encyclopédie'').^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1797 – The metal (Vauquelin, after Haüy); ''chromate''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1835 – First recorded by the Académie.^(TLFi)

+ * 1927 – ''Chromer'', ''chromage''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 20th century – ''Les chromes'' of a car.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(chemistry)'' [[m|en|chromium|alt=Chromium]], a hard, shining, rust-resistant metal (symbol Cr).^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A chromium-plated part, especially of a car: ''faire briller les chromes''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[chromatique]]

+ * [[chromo]]

+ * [[en|chrome]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}