-some
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-some1
▶suffix forming adjectives meaning.
- 1 productive of: loathsome.
- 2 characterized by being: wholesome.
■ apt to: tiresome.
– origin OE -sum.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-some2
▶suffix (forming nouns) denoting a group of a specified number: foursome.
– origin OE sum ‘some’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-some3
▶combining form denoting a portion of a body, especially a particle of a cell: chromosome.
– origin from Gk sōma ‘body’.
'-some' also found in these Oxford entries:
acid
- acute accent
- -ad
- aerated
- Afro
- afterlife
- aggravate
- aiguillette
- alb
- alcheringa
- alibi
- alienation
- aliquot
- alpha particle
- alpha radiation
- alt.
- alternation of generations
- alternative
- although
- aluminosilicate
- among
- amphipod
- and
- andropause
- antenna
- any
- apatosaurus
- apocrine
- Aramaic
- armour
- arsine
- artemisia
- assassin bug
- aura
- avunculate
- backlot
- bank
- banker
- barb
- bartsia
- baton
- beak
- bedel
- beg
- billiard table
- blastocyst
- bloodletting
- bluestocking
- borax
- borrow
