-tomy

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 140 words | Copyright

-tomy terminal el. repr. Gr. -tomíā, often through L. -tomia, F. -tomie, forming abstract sbs. from adjs. in -tómos cutting.

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