-ome

• (General American) IPA^(key): /-oʊm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /-əʊm/

Alteration of -oma, removing the case ending retained from its Ancient Greek [Term?] 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.

-ome

1. A mass of something.

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.

-ome

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

• -omics

• Appendix:Suffixes -ome and -omics
• -some

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

From the Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma).

IPA^(key): /ɔm/

-ome

1. -oma