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-orama

-orama suffix: used to form, from one noun, a second meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic reference to the preceding sense) "surfeit of", "overattention to", or "exaggerated praise of" the first.

Suffix

-orama

  1. Used to form, from one noun, a second meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic reference to the preceding sense) "surfeit of", "overattention to", or "exaggerated praise of" the first.

Forms of -orama

alternative form-o-rama
alternative form-rama

Origin of -orama

Back-formation from panorama and cyclorama (which are modern coinages, not Greek words), and thus from Ancient Greek ὅρᾱμᾰ (hórāmă, “sight”, “spectacle”), in turn evolved from the Proto-Indo-European *wer-, meaning to perceive or look out for.

Questions about -orama

What does -orama mean?
-orama means used to form, from one noun, a second meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic reference to the preceding sense) "surfeit of", "overattention to", or "exaggerated praise of" the first.
What part of speech is -orama?
-orama is a suffix.

Words near -orama in the dictionary

  1. -opoly
  2. -opsia
  3. -opsis
  4. -opsy
  5. -or
  6. -orama
  7. -orexia
  8. -oria
  9. -ories
  10. -orium
  11. -oriums

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