prismatic

English

Alternative forms

• prismatick (archaic)

Etymology

From French prismatique.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹɪzˈmætɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

prismatic (comparative more prismatic, superlative most prismatic)

1. Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms.
2. Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant in color.

Synonyms

• (varied in color): motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Derived terms

• antiprismatic
• aprismatic
• diprismatic
• gigantoprismatic
• interprismatic
• microprismatic
• nacroprismatic
• nonprismatic
• prismatical
• prismatically
• prismatic coefficient
• prismatic colors
• prismatic colours
• prismatic compass
• prismatic powder
• subprismatic

Translations

of or pertaining to a prism

• Bulgarian: призматичен (bg) (prizmatičen)
• Catalan: prismàtic (ca)
• Finnish: prismamainen, prismaattinen (fi)
• French: prismatique (fr)
• Galician: prismático m
• German: prismatisch (de), prismenförmig (de), prismenartig
• Greek: πρισματικός (el) (prismatikós)
• Italian: prismatico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prismatisk

  Nynorsk: prismatisk

• Polish: pryzmatyczny
• Portuguese: prismático
• Romanian: prismatic (ro)
• Spanish: prismático
• Tagalog: binalimbing
• Turkish: prizmatik (tr)

separated or distributed by a prism

• Italian: prismatico (it)
• Tagalog: binalimbing

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “prismatic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French prismatique. Equivalent to prismă +‎ -atic.

Adjective

prismatic m or n (feminine singular prismatică, masculine plural prismatici, feminine and neuter plural prismatice)

1. prismatic

Declension

Declension of prismatic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	prismatic		prismatică		prismatici	prismatice
	definite	prismaticul		prismatica		prismaticii	prismaticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	prismatic		prismatice		prismatici	prismatice
	definite	prismaticului		prismaticei		prismaticilor	prismaticelor