I. ˈsō-mə noun
Etymology: Sanskrit; akin to Avestan haoma, a Zoroastrian ritual drink, Sanskrit sunoti he presses out
Date: 1827
: an intoxicating juice from a plant of disputed identity that was used in ancient India as an offering to the gods and as a drink of immortality by worshippers in Vedic ritual and worshipped in personified form as a Vedic god
II. noun
( plural so·ma·ta ˈsō-mə-tə ; or somas )
Etymology: New Latin somat-, soma, from Greek sōmat-, sōma body
Date: circa 1885
1. : the body of an organism
2. : all of an organism except the germ cells
3. : cell body