-ome
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- Mass:
“茎”,“体”,“粒”:群:
biome.
生物群落区
语源
- New Latin -ōma -ōmat-
现代拉丁语 -ōma -ōmat- - from Greek [n. suff]
源自 希腊语 [名词后缀]
-ome
combining form in countable noun
denoting a mass or part of a specified kind
⇒
rhizome
Origin
variant of -oma-omea combining form denoting a mass or parts having a specific nature, used chiefly in biology, as in biome.
[variant of -oma]-ome
noun suffix
phyllome
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY New Latin -oma, from Latin, -oma
: massphyllome
-ome
suffix
- chiefly Biology forming nouns denoting objects or parts having a specified nature【主生】[构成名词]表示“具有某特性的物体或部分”:
-
rhizome
trichome.
词源
variant form of -OMA .
ORIGIN: Anglicized from -oma (partly through influence of German -om , French -ome ).
-ome
\ˌōm\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: New Latin -omat-, -oma, from Latin -omat-, -oma -oma
: abstract entity : group : mass : stem
< caulome >
< mestome >
< caulome >
< mestome >
-ome 1
Suffix
- A mass of something.
Etymology
Alteration of -oma, removing the case ending retained from its Ancient Greek etymon -ωμα (-ōma). Partially cognate to -some (“body”), from σῶμα (sôma, “body”), in that both share the case ending -μα (-ma), but the ω is unrelated.
Derived terms
-ome 2
Suffix
- biology The complete whole of a class of substances for a species or an individual.
Etymology
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.
Related terms
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -ome
See also
References
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989