-ome

English

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-ome

Pronunciation

enPR: ōm′
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊm/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌəʉm/
(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɐʉm/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌom/
(India) IPA^(key): /ˌoːm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Etymology 1

Alteration of -oma, from Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma).

Only partially cognate to -some (“body”), from σῶμα (sôma, “body”), in that both share the case ending -μα (-ma), but the ω is unrelated.

Suffix

-ome

A mass of something.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Back-formation from mitome, reinforced by chromosome. Early examples include biome (1916) and genome, from German Genom (1920).^[1] Some association with genetics due to occurrence in chromosome and genome.

Suffix

-ome

(biology) The complete whole of a class of substances for a species or an individual.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -ome

hydroxymethylome

immunopeptidome

metatranscriptome

phospholipidome

Related terms

-omics

See also

References

^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “-ome”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

EOM, Moe, MoE, MOE, emo, moé, OEM, Emo, Meo, moe, Eom

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔm/

Suffix

-ome m (noun-forming suffix, plural -omes)

(pathology, oncology) -oma
‎mélano- + ‎-ome → ‎mélanome (“melanoma”) (surface etymology)
(biology) -ome
‎bio- + ‎-ome → ‎biome (“biome”)

Derived terms

French terms suffixed with -ome

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.mɛ/
Rhymes: -ɔmɛ
Syllabification: -o‧me

Suffix

-ome

inflection of -omy:
1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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