Hydraulic doesn't necessary pertain to water. You can have a hydraulic pump that uses any liquid. You could use juice, beer, or oil. Anything liquid would work.
Strictly speaking, the word hydraulic means "pertaining to water", derived from the Greek word for water. But it also means pertaining to hydraulics, which can use any liquid not just water. So I'll allow liquid now.
It does not. It is derived from hydro (water) and aulos (pipe) and it means in its most general sense 'operated, moved, or effected by means of water', which is definitely not the same as 'pertaining to water'. That would be the prefix 'hydro-'. See Merriam-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hydraulic and Oxford Dictionary https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/hydraulic
But for the musical definition of chromatic (not in the key, or pertaining to scales made of half steps) I can't think of a way to describe it with one word.
Anyway, the musical definition of chromatic (as non-scalar pitches) derives from the perception that chromatic pitches lend a sense of "color" to musical compositions.
The answers are a bit all over the place in terms of whether (when there is more than one possibility) they pertain to a noun, a verb, an organisation or a concept. For example, I would think the most appropriate answer for martial would be "military"- as it is possible to have martial law without war. And while I concede (after a quick Wikipedia search) that the origin of the word celestial relates to its association with heaven, I would have thought that it's secular use to describe objects in space is more ubiquitous these days.
Yeah. I knew that "chthon" meant "earth" (in the sense of "soil", not in the sense of "Terra"), and I was pretty sure I'd seen "chthonic" in the context of animals that live underground (for example, Google the chthonic hypothesis for the evolution of discontinuous gas exchange in insects), so I was frustrated when neither "underground" nor "soil" worked. Eventually gave up on it.
Yea I tried earth first (which got me aural) then ground, then another synonym I believe, but I don;t think it was soil. Then I went more general and tried underground. Which by now worked, but if it hadnt I think i probably would have given up. (Should have thought about subterranean, but I doubt I would have atm)
Chromatic is used to describe something that adjusts slightly, forlack of a better description. In music, it defines in-between notes, such as the F# in between an F and a G. It translates to color thanks to the "in-between" colors, such as the way purple is between red and blue.
chro·mat·ic
/krōˈmatik/
adjective: chromatic
1. Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
•(of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones.•(of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale.
Maybe I misunderstood what you said, but you have some things backwards. Chroma- relating to colors does not come from music, but the other way around. I am sure the word is used to describe the things you claim, but that is not the origin. It comes from greek khrôma, color.
Saying conical pertains to cones is like saying dermal pertains to dermis. I thought it was looking for geometry or shapes. Also, I tried to pronounce chthonic and sprained my chthongue!
I've recently made version #4 of this Quiz, to continue with the series. In case you're interested, you are welcome to take it: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/115649/words-pertaining-to-things-4
:P Well if there was an english word tongueistic, it might have been right ;) (I know lingua is tongue, but don't know how the -istic would translate to latin)
Wow I had never heard of dearth, how could I have not come across that word before ! I hope I remember it :)
Ah looked up the etymology too now, and basicly it is dear-ity (dear as in expensive, the old meaning, which turned into valuable to someone, and then to someone important or precious to you)
More like dirt, since it means ground, soil. Or underground. which I guess eventually might get you to death. Because there were subterranean (primordial) beings (chthonic gods) which lived underground,that place was referred to as the underworld. And now we relate the word Underworld with death.
no, it is about movement. Any movement, and not about how fast. You would not use speed or velocity for lifting a leg or raising an arm.
Cinema is related and has nothing to do with speed, but with moving images (or more precise, creating the illusion of movement by the use of multiple images, which slightly differ from the next)
Chthonic: indeed a very useful word, why do we not use it more in English? I know that in Dutch for example the pair auto- and allo- chtoon are used to distinguish, let me say, aboriginal and immigrant people. So very useful, avoiding such verbal monstrosities as say second- or third generation immigrants. Though of course it still does beg the question: out of which soil has anyone ultimately sprung?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hydraulic
au·ral
ˈôrəl/
adjective
adjective: aural
1. of or relating to the ear or the sense of hearing.
Also, "underground" or "subterranean" should be accepted for chthonic.
chro·mat·ic
/krōˈmatik/
adjective: chromatic
1. Relating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
•(of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones.•(of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale.
2. of, relating to, or produced by color.
Thanks in advance!
Ah looked up the etymology too now, and basicly it is dear-ity (dear as in expensive, the old meaning, which turned into valuable to someone, and then to someone important or precious to you)
Cinema is related and has nothing to do with speed, but with moving images (or more precise, creating the illusion of movement by the use of multiple images, which slightly differ from the next)