-drome
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “running; racetrack”).
Suffix
[edit]-drome
- (literary) Forms placenames related to racetracks (now especially large covered racetracks) or similar structures.
Derived terms
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Extracted from hippodrome.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-drome m (plural -dromes)
- -drome
- vaccin (“vaccine”) + -o- + -drome → vaccinodrome (“mass vaccination center”)
- samba (“samba”) + -o- + -drome → sambodrome (“sambadrome, Brazilian exhibition center for samba dancing”)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “-drome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- English literary terms
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *drem-
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French suffixes
- French noun-forming suffixes
- French countable nouns
- French masculine suffixes