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-some
-some 1suff. Characterized by a specified quality, condition, or action: bothersome.
[Middle English -som, from Old English -sum, -like; see sem- in Indo-European roots.]
-some 2suff. A group of a specified number of members: threesome.
[Middle English -sum, from Old English sum, some; see some.]
-some 3suff.1. Body: centrosome.2. Chromosome: monosome.
[From Greek sōma, body; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.]-some suffix forming adjectives characterized by; tending to: awesome; tiresome. [Old English -sum; related to Gothic -sama, German -sam]
-some suffix forming nouns indicating a group of a specified number of members: threesome. [Old English sum, special use of some (determiner)]
-some (-səʊm) n combining forma body: chromosome. [from Greek sōma body]some (sʌm; unstressed səm)
adj. 1. being an undetermined or unspecified one: Some person may object. 2. certain (used with plural nouns): Some days I stay home. 3. unspecified in number, amount, degree, etc.: to some extent. 4. unspecified but considerable in number, amount, degree, etc.: We talked for some time. 5. Informal. remarkable of its type: That was some storm. pron. 6. certain persons, individuals, instances, etc., not specified: Some think he is dead. 7. an unspecified number, amount, etc., as distinguished from the rest or in addition: He paid a thousand dollars and then some. adv. 8. approximately; about: Some 300 were present. 9. to some degree or extent: I like baseball some. [before 900; Middle English (adj. and pronoun); Old English sum orig., someone, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German sum, Old Norse sumr, Gothic sums] -some1 , an adjective-forming suffix, now unproductive, with the meanings “like,” “tending to”: burdensome; quarrelsome. [Middle English; Old English -sum, c. Old Frisian -sum; akin to Old Saxon, Old High German -sam, Old Norse -samr, Gothic -sams] -some2 , a collective suffix used with numerals: threesome. [Middle English -sum, Old English sum some (pronoun)] -some3 , a combining form used in the names of structures or regions of a cell (chromosome; ribosome), chromosomes (autosome), or organisms having the form specified by the initial element (schistosome; trypanosome). [< Greek sôma body; see soma1] -some
-some, -soma [Gr. sōma, body] Suffixes meaning body.-some Suffix denoting body, as in chromosome.-some suffix denoting body, for example CHROMOSOME, LYSOSOME. |