-ome

From Freepedia

Suffixes

-archy

-Biology suffixes

-cide

-cracy

-cycle

-dom

-ic

-illion

-ism

-ist

-izzle

-kinesis

-mania

-nik

-ography

-oid

-ologist

-ology

-ome

-omics

-onomy

-onym

-ous

-phil-

-phobia

-polis

-scope

-stan

-ville

-ware

-Ome is a suffix commonly attached to biological entities for describing very large-scale data collection and analysis. It is supposed to mean a 'body'. It is used mostly to denote a whole set of something. For example genome is used to indicate the whole set (whether it is complete now or not) of genes in a cell, tissue, organ, organism, or species (possibly even more).