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atomy

A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speckA tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.

/ˈætəmi/

Значення

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A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.
A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.
A floating mote or speck of dust.
(діалектне, переносно)A very small being; a mite.
(Британія, діалектне, переносно)A person who is very emaciated or thin; a skeleton.
A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.
(архаїчне)The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something; an atom.
(архаїчне)A skeleton.
(переносно, застаріле)Chiefly in the works of the English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870): a thing which is very slender and weak.

Походження

A variant of atomi, the plural of atomus (“hypothetical particle posited as an ultimate an

A variant of atomi, the plural of atomus (“hypothetical particle posited as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter; mote of dust in a sunbeam”) treated as a singular form. Atomus is derived from Latin atomus, from Ancient Greek ἄτομος (átomos, “indivisible”, adjective), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, prefix forming terms having an opposite sense) + τομ- (tom-) (stem of τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns of action or result). Doublet of atom.

Rebracketing of anatomy (“skeleton”) as an atomy; compare notomy.

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