tome

See also: Tome, tomé, Tomé, and -tome

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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.

   • 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: please add this translation if you can

• 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)
• Hungarian: kötet (hu)
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• Icelandic: bindi n
• Ido: tomo (io)
• 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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: opus (fi)
• German: Wälzer (de) m, Schinken (de) m
• Greek: τόμος (el) m (tómos)
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• Irish: mórleabhar m
• Japanese: 大冊 (taisatsu)
• 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
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Anagrams

• Mote, mote

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) tome

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

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French

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tomus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tom/, /tɔm/

Noun

tome m (plural tomes)

1. tome, volume
2. section
3. subaltern

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tome f (plural tomes)

1. 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

(deprecated template usage) 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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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.mɨ/

Verb

tome

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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.