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Where does “toma” come from?

toma (English) comes from Italian toma, 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...

toma (English): A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont

Definitions

  1. A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont

Ancestry of “toma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantomatoma
2Latintomusa section of a larger work; a volume
3Ancient Greekτόμοςslice, piece; piece of land; frustum
4Ancient Greek-ός—
5Proto-Hellenic*-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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