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接尾辞

-tome

1. An instrument for cutting.

語源 2

From Ancient Greek τομή (tomḗ), τόμος (tómos, “a cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).

接尾辞

-tome

1. A section or segment.

派生語

関連する語

• -tomy

アナグラム

• Mote, mote

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tōm, IPA: /təʊm/
• (General American) enPR: tōm, IPA: /toʊm/
• 韻: -əʊm

名詞

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, 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.

アナグラム

• Mote, mote

形容詞

tome

1. empty, hollow

別の表記

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

派生した語

• English: toom
• Scots: tume, tuim

参照

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

語源 2

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

名詞

tome (uncountable)

1. free time, leisure

別の表記

• tom, thome; tame (Northern)

派生した語

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

参照

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

語源 3

形容詞

tome

1. (Southwest, southern West Midland) alternative form of tame (“tame”)

参照

• “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.