The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσῶμα“body”
- English todaysomatome
Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”) + τομή (tomḗ, “cut, incision”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσῶμα all →
somaliposomeautosomeazotosomeidiosomaprosomasomato-somatoschisis-some
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.