tome

See also: Tome, tomé, Tomé, and -tome

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tōm, IPA^(key): /təʊm/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (General American) enPR: tōm, IPA^(key): /toʊm/
• Rhymes: -əʊm

Noun

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]:

     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.

Translations

one in a series of volumes

• Armenian: հատոր (hy) (hator)
• Catalan: tom (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卷 (zh) (juàn)

• Dutch: band (nl) m, deel (nl) n
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: nidos, osa (fi)
• French: tome (fr) m
• Georgian: ტომი (ṭomi)
• German: Band (de) m
• Greek: τόμος (el) m (tómos)

  Ancient: τόμος m (tómos)

• Hungarian: kötet (hu)

• Icelandic: bindi n
• Ido: tomo (io)
• Kazakh: том (tom)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bind (no) n pl

  Nynorsk: bind n pl

• Polish: tom (pl) m, wolumin (pl) m
• Portuguese: tomo (pt) m
• Russian: том (ru) m (tom)
• Slovene: tom m, zvezek (sl) m
• Spanish: tomo (es) m
• Swedish: band (sv), tom (sv) c

large or scholarly book — See also translations at doorstop

• Catalan: totxo (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巨著 (zh) (jùzhù)

• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: opus (fi), teos (fi)
• French: pavé (fr) m
• German: Wälzer (de) m, Schinken (de) m
• Greek: τόμος (el) m (tómos)

• Irish: mórleabhar m
• Italian: librone (it) m
• Japanese: 大冊 (taisatsu)
• Polish: księga (pl) f
• Portuguese: tomo (pt) m, calhamaço (pt) m, alfarrábio (pt) m
• Russian: том (ru) m (tom)
• Spanish: mamotreto (es) m, librote m, tocho (es) m
• Swedish: lunta (sv), tom (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} doðrantur m

Anagrams

• Mote, mote

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Asturian

Verb

tome

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

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French

Etymology 1

From Latin tomus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tom/, /tɔm/

Noun

tome m (plural tomes)

1. tome, volume
2. section
3. subaltern

Descendants

• → English: tome
• → Russian: том m (tom)

Etymology 2

tome / tomme de Savoie

From Franco-Provençal tomme, likely from sense 1 in the sense of asking for a slice of cheese.

Alternative forms

• tomme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm

• (file)

Noun

tome f (plural tomes)

2. A variety of mountain cheese

Further reading

• “tome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

References

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

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Galician

Verb

tome

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

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Japanese

Romanization

tome

1. Rōmaji transcription of とめ

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Latin

Noun

tome m

1. vocative singular of tomus

References

• 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

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

tome

1. empty, hollow

Alternative forms

• tom, toume, tombe; toyme, tum, tume (Northern)

Descendants

• English: toom
• Scots: tume, tuim

References

• “tọ̄m(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tome (uncountable)

1. free time, leisure

Alternative forms

• tom, thome; tame (Northern)

Descendants

• English: toom
• Middle Scots: tume, toym, toyme, toume

References

• “tọ̄m(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Adjective

tome

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

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Nias

Noun

tome (mutated form dome)

1. guest

References

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

tome

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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.mɨ/

Verb

tome

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of tomar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of tomar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of tomar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of tomar

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Spanish

Verb

tome

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tomar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tomar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tomar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tomar.