polymelia
English
noun
Definitions
- A congenital defect characterized by extra limbs
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek μέλος (limb, song, melody, member, tune, music, part of the body).
Origin
Ancient Greek
μέλος
Gloss
limb, song, melody, member, tune, music, part of the body
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
楽
Emoji
🎵
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acromesomelia English
- amelia English
- anisomelia English
- melomaniac English
- melos English
- melos Latin
- maniaque French
- mélodrame French
- melodrama Spanish, Castilian
- Δημομέλης Ancient Greek
- Σεμέλη Ancient Greek
- δρᾶμα Ancient Greek
- λαλοβαρυπαραμελορυθμοβάτης Ancient Greek
- μέλος Ancient Greek
- *mel- Proto-Indo-European
- melodrama Norwegian Bokmål
- melodrama Norwegian Nynorsk
- ερρινομελής Greek (modern)