tome

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

Noun

tome ‎(plural tomes)

1. One in a series of volumes.
2. A large or scholarly book.

   The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.

Translations

one in a series of volumes

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

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• Dutch: band (nl) m, deel (nl) n
• Finnish: nidos, osa (fi)
• French: tome (fr) m
• Georgian: ტომი ‎(ṭomi)
• German: Band (de) m

• Greek: τόμος (el) m ‎(tómos)
• Icelandic: bindi n
• Ido: tomo (io)
• 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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: opus (fi)
• German: Wälzer (de) m, Schinken (de) m
• Greek: τόμος (el) m ‎(tómos)

• Irish: mórleabhar m
• Polish: księga (pl) f
• Portuguese: tomo (pt) m, calhamaço (pt) m
• Russian: том (ru) m ‎(tom)
• Swedish: lunta (sv), tom (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

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

Anagrams

• mote

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Asturian

Verb

tome

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

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French

Etymology

From Latin tomus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tom/
• Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

tome m ‎(plural tomes)

1. tome, volume
2. section
3. subaltern

External links

• “tome” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Verb

tome

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

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Japanese

Romanization

tome

1. rōmaji reading of とめ

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Latin

Noun

tome m

1. vocative singular of tomus

References

• tome in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tome in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

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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, ela, also used with tu and você^?) 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.