-ome

后缀
中文释义
英 /ˌəʊm/    美 /ˌoʊm/|/ˌəʉm/|/ˌɐʉm/

英文释义

后缀
  1. A mass of something. morpheme
  2. The complete whole of a class of substances for a species or an individual. morpheme

词源

词源 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.
词源 2
Back-formation from mitome, reinforced by chromosome. Early examples include biome (1916) and genome, from German Genom (1920). Some association with genetics due to occurrence in chromosome and genome.
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