-tomo

See also: tomo, Tomo, tomó, Tomō, tömő, and tomo-

Italian

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek -τόμον (-tómon), akin to τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).

Suffix

-tomo m

1. -tome (cutting instrument)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos), derived from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).

Suffix

-tomo m

1. -tome (section, segment)

Derived terms

Italian terms suffixed with -tomo

Further reading

• -tomo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• moto, moto-

Japanese

Romanization

-tomo

1. Rōmaji transcription of とも

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek -τομον (-tomon, “that cuts”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).

Suffix

-tomo (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -toma, masculine plural -tomos, feminine plural -tomas)

1. -tomous

Suffix

-tomo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -tomos)

1. -tome

Derived terms

Spanish terms suffixed with -tomo

Related terms

• -tomía

 

Further reading

• “-tomo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• -chomo (allomorph after i)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [-tomo]

Suffix

-tomo

1. Forms plural possessed forms of animate nouns, including kinship terms and pets.

Usage notes

This suffix takes the place of the ordinary possessive suffixes (-dü, -i, etc.) and plural suffix -komo and does not ordinarily co-occur with them. (It may occur with a following -komo as -tonkomo, but in this case it indicates plurality of the possessor rather than the possessed noun.) For many kinship terms, it attaches to a suppletive form rather than the ordinary form of the noun. Exceptionally, it is never used with the kinship term nne (“son or daughter”).

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-tomo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 115–118
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 306–307