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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

-some

/(-sōm)/ · IPA /səm/
01 A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.
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    A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.
02 a. An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the…
  1. 1.
    An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc.