hydrous
hy·drous/ˈhaɪdɹəs/adjective
hydrous is an adjective meaning “Containing combined water; hydrated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-U-S and has 2 syllables (hy·drous), and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hydrous mean?
adjective
- 1
Containing combined water; hydrated.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydrous?
- US /ˈhaɪdɹəs/
Hydrous has 2 syllables, split hy·drous in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-hydrous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is hydrous?
Hydrous appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hydrous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense containing combined water:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | wasserhaltig |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hydrous come from?
From Ancient Greek ὑδροῦς (hudroûs), from the combining form of ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -οῦς (-oûs, “-ous, -ful”). Equivalent to hydro- + -ous. Doublet of Otranto and Hydruntum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).