-ome

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

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

1. -oma