Etymology

tomo-

Today it means: sections; cutting Full definition →

Ancient Greek τόμος ← Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*temh₁-“to cut”
  2. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromτόμος“section, slice”
  3. English todaytomo-

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, slice”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekτόμος all →

tometomos-tomous

Proto-Indo-European*temh₁- all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.