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-omia

-omia is the obsolete form of -oma.

Meaning of -oma

Suffix

-oma (plural -omata or -omas)

  1. Forming nouns indicating disease or morbidity.
  2. (specifically) Forming nouns indicating tumors or masses, which may be non-neoplastic or (more often) neoplastic, and (if the latter) either benign or malignant (cancerous); in accord with present-day understanding of histopathology, the suffix is now nonproductive for non-neoplastic senses.
    Synonyms:
    -cele, -coele

Origin of -omia

From Latin -omia, from Ancient Greek -ωμία (-ōmía).

Questions about -omia

What is -omia the obsolete form of?
-omia is the obsolete form of -oma.

Words near -omia in the dictionary

  1. -omatosis
  2. -omatous
  3. -ome
  4. -ometer
  5. -ometry
  6. -omia
  7. -omic
  8. -omics
  9. -omino
  10. -omize
  11. -omy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -omia (page history and authors); -oma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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