-tomo
Italian
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek -τόμον (-tómon), akin to τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).
Suffix
-tomo m
- -tome (cutting instrument)
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos), derived from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).
Suffix
-tomo m
- -tome (section, segment)
Derived terms
Further reading
- -tomo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- moto, moto-
Japanese
Romanization
-tomo
- Rōmaji transcription of とも
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (allomorph after i) -chomo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [-tomo]
Suffix
-tomo
- 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, page 115–118
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek -τομον (-tomon, “that cuts”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).
Suffix
-tomo (feminine -toma, masculine plural -tomos, feminine plural -tomas)
- -tomous
Suffix
-tomo m (plural -tomos)
- -tome
Derived terms
Related terms
- -tomía
Further reading
- “-tomo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014