-ome

• enPR: ōm′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊm/

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• (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/

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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.

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

From Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma).

• IPA^(key): /ɔm/

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

1. (pathology, oncology) -oma

   ‎mélano- + ‎-ome → ‎mélanome (“melanoma”) (surface etymology)

2. (biology) -ome

   ‎bio- + ‎-ome → ‎biome (“biome”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.mɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɔmɛ
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

-ome

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