# 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: /təʊm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) enPR: tōm, IPA: /toʊm/
* Rhymes: -əʊm

### Noun

tome (plural tomes)
* One in a series of volumes.
* 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, 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: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.

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* Mote, mote

## Asturian
### Verb

tome
* first/third-person singular present subjunctive of tomar

## French
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tomus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tom/, /tɔm/

#### Noun

tome m (plural tomes)
* tome, volume
* section
* subaltern

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal tôma, of obscure origin.

#### Alternative forms

* tomme

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔm/
* Rhymes: -ɔm
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

tome f (plural tomes)
* 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

## Galician
### Verb

tome
* inflection of tomar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Japanese
### Romanization

tome
* Rōmaji transcription of とめ

## Latin
### Noun

tome m
* 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.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

tome
* 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)
* 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
* (Southwest, southern West Midlands) Alternative form of tame (“tame”)

## Nias
### Noun

tome (mutated form dome)
* guest

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Adjective

tome
* (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tom
* (non-standard since 2012) plural of tom

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtõ.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtõ.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈto.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɔ.mɨ/
* Hyphenation: to‧me

### Verb

tome
* inflection of tomar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

tome
* inflection of tomar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative