tome

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”).

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

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

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.

• Mote, mote

tome

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

Borrowed from Latin tomus.

• IPA^(key): /tom/, /tɔm/

tome m (plural tomes)

1. tome, volume
2. section
3. subaltern

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

 

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal tôma, of obscure origin.

• tomme

• IPA^(key): /tɔm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm

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tome f (plural tomes)

2. a variety of mountain cheese

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

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

tome

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

tome

1. Rōmaji transcription of とめ

tome m

1. vocative singular of tomus

• “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.

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

tome

1. empty, hollow

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

• English: toom
• Scots: tume, tuim

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

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

tome (uncountable)

1. free time, leisure

• tom, thome; tame (Northern)

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

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

tome

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

tome (mutated form dome)

1. guest

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

tome

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

• Hyphenation: to‧me

tome

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

tome

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