tome
pronunciation
How to pronounce tome in British English:
UK [təʊm]
How to pronounce tome in American English:
US [toʊm]
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- Noun:
- a (usually) large and scholarly book
Word Origin
- tome
- tome: [16] Tome comes via French tome and Latin tomus from Greek tómos. This originally meant ‘slice, piece’ (it went back to the prehistoric Indo-European base *tom-, *tem- ‘cut’, which is also responsible for English temple, tonsorial [19], tonsure [14], and the surgical suffix -tomy ‘cutting’), but it was extended metaphorically to a ‘cut roll of paper’ and eventually to a ‘volume, book’.=> temple, tonsorial, tonsure
- tome (n.)
- 1510s, "a single volume of a multi-volume work," from Middle French tome (16c.), from Latin tomus "section of a book, tome," from Greek tomos "volume, section of a book," originally "a section, piece cut off," from temnein "to cut," from PIE *tem- "to cut" (cognates: second element in Latin aestimare "to value, appraise," Old Church Slavonic tina "to cleave, split," Middle Irish tamnaim "I cut off," Welsh tam "morsel"). Sense of "a large book" is attested from 1570s.
Example
- 1. Tome has really flung himself into his work this year .
- 2. Sao tome and principe passport hongkong visa in hongkong .
- 3. Next passage of the huge tome that was the book of prayer .
- 4. He installs a friendly government in sao tome .
- 5. You should hear the way she talks tome .