Where does “mammotome” come from?

mammotome (English) comes from English Tomé, from Middle French tome, from Latin tomus, from Ancient Greek τόμος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

mammotome (English): An instrument used in mammotomy

Definitions

  1. An instrument used in mammotomy

Ancestry of “mammotome”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishToméOne in a series of volumes
2Middle Frenchtome
3Latintomusa section of a larger work; a volume
4Ancient Greekτόμοςslice, piece; piece of land; frustum
5Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
6Proto-Hellenic*-os
7Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Ancient Greek -όςEvery word from Ancient Greek τόμος