I notice the usage O-RAMA in many places. Like PIZZA-O-RAMA, BOWL-O-RAMA. Curious to know what does it mean.?

Question

How did this term came about? When can we use this term.
Can i add this to any word and make sense out of it?

Answer 1

From the Merriam-Webster Word.com January 2007 page:

"In 1822, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the inventor of the daguerreotype, and his partner Charles-Marie Bouton opened an exhibition in Paris. Borrowing the -orama of panorama, Daguerre named his exhibition of three-dimensional pictorial views the Diorama, giving rise to the word diorama. diorama. Soon -orama was used in the names of many exhibits that imitated the panorama or the diorama: cosmorama, cyclorama, georama, myriorama, and marinorama.myriorama, and marinorama.

"By the 1950s, -orama was being regularly used to create nouns that referred to displays, events, or other things that were sizable or expansive. In the earliest -orama words, the combining form was added to initial elements that came from ancient Greek, but by the middle of the 20th-century, -orama was being added to English initial elements, giving us everything from motorama, an exhibition of motor vehicles, to donutorama and ugly-o-rama.

"Today, -orama signifies two things: either a scenic exhibit along the lines of a diorama or panorama, or a large or comprehensive event, display, etc."

Answer 2

O-RAMA isn't really a word. It's something businesses tack on to the end of something to make it seem like a really big deal. At someplace called "Pizza-o-rama" you would expect lots and lots of pizza. Same for Bowl-o-rama. You can't really add it to the end of words and expect to make sense (If I say I'm having a video-game-o-rama, I'm just going to sound dumb.)

Answer 3

From the word panorama
In its most general sense, a panorama is any wide view of a physical space. It has also come to refer to a wide-angle representation of such a view — whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model. Further, the motion-picture term, pan or panning, is derived from "panorama".

Answer 4

Panorama - from Greek meaning "all view", the wide-open view of the complete surrounding area.

The way words are formed is by someone using it and others picking it up. That's the way, "nitty gritty" started as well as others.

Answer 5

Rama is everywhere. Wherever you use him, you get a newer meaning. He is there in drama, gramaphone, panorama, cinerama, telerama. And Karunanidhi does not know this. And that's why all this fuss in India.