atomy.
A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.
Meaning & usage
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.
A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck. The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something; an atom.
A very small being; a mite.
Where this word comes from
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.
Made up of tiny particles.
Resembling a tiny particle; atomlike.
Where this word comes from
From atom + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’).
A skeleton.
A person who is very emaciated or thin; a skeleton.
Chiefly in the works of the English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870): a thing which is very slender and weak.
Where this word comes from
Rebracketing of anatomy (“skeleton”) as an atomy; compare notomy.
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