Noun: soma
| Singular | soma |
| Plural | somas; somata |
Sample Sentences
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Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma, he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual. [2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 82:]
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[…] there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon […] [1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:]
Nouns inflected like soma
urinoma,
seroma,
rhabdomyoblastoma,
xyloma,
emphysema,
xenoma,
granuloma,
palisade parenchyma,
microadenoma,
gnathosoma,
melodrama,
gliosarcoma,
charisma,
Kaposi's sarcoma,
papilloma,
sublemma,
paranatellon,
cementoma,
osteochondroma,
melanocarcinoma, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
σῶμα'.
Verbs referencing "soma"
Finnish Nouns
sooma.