-some
Characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree.
Suffix morpheme
- Characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree.
- Elsewhere the blingsome silver-beveled mirrors, butterfly and lotus blossom motifs, and the occasional chaise longue make the opulence a touch on the show-off side for me, but the expenses were obviously 5-star and it's...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some From Middle English -som, -sum, from Old English -sum (“same as; -some”), from Proto-West Germanic *-sam, from Proto-Germanic *-samaz, from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same”). Akin to Saterland Frisian -soam (“-some”), West Frisian -sum (“-some”), Dutch -zaam (“-some”), German Low German -saam (“-some”), German -sam (“-some”), Danish -som, Swedish -sam, Icelandic -samur (“-some”), Gothic -𐍃𐌰𐌼𐍃 (-sams), -𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 (-sama). Cognate with Albanian -shëm (“-some”). More at same, some.
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Suffix morpheme
- Denoting a group with a certain number of members.
Origin
From Middle English -som, from a specialized use of Old English sum (“some, one”) coming after a genitive plural (e.g. hē wæs fēowertiga sum --"he was one of forty", literally "he was forties' some[one]"; sixa sum --"one of six, sixsome").
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Suffix in compounds, morpheme
- Chromosome.
Origin
From previous sense “body” (from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”)), by analogy with chromosome.
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Derived
Suffix in compounds, morpheme
- Body.
Origin
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
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Derived
acrosome azotosome centrosome cephalosome chromosome connexosome cytosome endosome eurysome gonosome hydrogenosome leptosome liposome lymphosome lysosome macrosomia melanosome merosome mesosome metasome mitosome mutasome nectosome neurosome
Suffix morpheme
- Plus some indeterminate fraction not amounting to the next higher round number or significant digit; and change; -odd.
- twenty-some identifiable factors affecting the outcome
- one-hundred-and-fifty-some spectators in the bleachers
Origin
From some in its "approximately" sense; more at some § Etymology.