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tome

See also: Tome, tomé, Tomé, and -tome

English

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Etymology

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From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut, separate”).

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Noun

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tome (plural tomes)

  1. One in a series of volumes.
  2. A large or scholarly book.
    Synonym: (humorous) doorstop
    The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.
    • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎[1], archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
      And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.
    • 2023 April 20, Casey Schwartz, “Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again”, in The Washington Post‎[2]:
      One senses, picking up Twenge’s tome — 515 pages before you get to the appendix — an attempt to quell past criticisms. “I see this book as my magnum opus,” she said.

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Anagrams

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Asturian

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Verb

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tome

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of tomar

French

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin tomus.

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Noun

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tome m (plural tomes)

  1. tome, volume
  2. section
  3. subaltern
Descendants
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  • → English: tome
  • → Romanian: tom
  • → Russian: том m (tom)

Etymology 2

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tome / tomme de Savoie

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal tôma, of obscure origin.

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tome f (plural tomes)

  2. a variety of mountain cheese

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  • Oxford University Press (2016): The Oxford Companion to Cheese

Galician

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Verb

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tome

  1. inflection of tomar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Japanese

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Romanization

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tome

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とめ

Latin

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Noun

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tome m

  1. vocative singular of tomus

References

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  • “tome”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tome in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English tōm and Old Norse tómr, both from Proto-Germanic *tōmaz (“free, clear, empty”).

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tome

  1. empty, hollow
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse tom (“leisure, ease”). Compare Icelandic tóm (“empty space; leisure”).

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tome (uncountable)

  1. free time, leisure
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Adjective

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tome

  1. (Southwest, southern West Midlands) Alternative form of tame (“tame”)

Nias

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Noun

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tome (mutated form dome)

  1. guest

References

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  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 219.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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tome

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tom
  2. (non-standard since 2012) plural of tom

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  • Hyphenation: to‧me

Verb

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tome

  1. inflection of tomar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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tome

  1. inflection of tomar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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