"-ometry" meaning in English

See -ometry in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

Etymology: From the ending of words such as geometry; compare -o-, -metry. Etymology templates: {{m|en|geometry}} geometry, {{m|en|-o-}} -o-, {{m|en|-metry}} -metry Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -ometry, {{en-suffix}} -ometry
  1. Forming compound nouns describing "the action or process of measuring" something, frequently with corresponding nouns in -ometer. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--ometry-en-suffix-LCUodNB1

Download JSON data for -ometry meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "geometry"
      },
      "expansion": "geometry",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-o-"
      },
      "expansion": "-o-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-metry"
      },
      "expansion": "-metry",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the ending of words such as geometry; compare -o-, -metry.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "",
        "id": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-ometry",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-ometry",
      "name": "en-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Forming compound nouns describing \"the action or process of measuring\" something, frequently with corresponding nouns in -ometer."
      ],
      "id": "en--ometry-en-suffix-LCUodNB1",
      "links": [
        [
          "-ometer",
          "-ometer#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ometry"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "geometry"
      },
      "expansion": "geometry",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-o-"
      },
      "expansion": "-o-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-metry"
      },
      "expansion": "-metry",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the ending of words such as geometry; compare -o-, -metry.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "",
        "id": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-ometry",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-ometry",
      "name": "en-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English lemmas",
        "English suffixes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Forming compound nouns describing \"the action or process of measuring\" something, frequently with corresponding nouns in -ometer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "-ometer",
          "-ometer#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-ometry"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.