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Webster 1913 Edition


-some

-some

(-sōm)
.
A combining form or suffix from Gr.
σῶμα
(gen.
σώματος
) the body;
as in mero
some
, a body segment; cephalo
some
, etc.

-some

(-sŭm)
.
[AS.
-sum
; akin to G. & OHG.
-sam
, Icel.
samr
, Goth. lustu
sams
longed for. See
Same
,
Adj.
, and cf.
Some
,
Adj.
]
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.