The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτόμος“slice, something cut”
- Latin · derived from-tomus
- English today-tomous
From Latin -tomus, introduced by James Dwight Dana, from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “slice, something cut”). Perhaps modelled on Ancient Greek ἀκρότομος (akrótomos, “cut off sharply”, adjective).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekτόμος all →
tometomostomo-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.