-omics
See also: omics
English
Alternative forms
- -nomics
- -onomics
Etymology
-ome (“whole of class”) + -ics, both via international scientific vocabulary and New Latin ultimately from Ancient Greek
Suffix
-omics
- (chiefly biology) Forms nouns meaning “a study of the totality of something”.
- Life sciences usage
- gene + -omics → genomics
- protein + -omics → proteomics
- metabolism + -omics → metabolomics
- glyco- + -omics → glycomics
- Looser popular usage
- food + -omics → foodomics
- culture + -omics → culturomics
- token + -omics → tokenomics
- Life sciences usage
Derived terms
English terms suffixed with -omics
Related terms
- -ome
- ome
- omic
- omics
See also
- Appendix:Suffixes -ome and -omics
- -chrome
- -drome
- -ic
- -ics
- -some
Further reading
omics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- micos, osmic