The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμίτος“a thread”
- English todaymitome
From Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “a thread”) + -ωμα (-ōma). According to the OED, the functional origin of -ome.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμίτος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.