tome

[tohm]
noun
1.
a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
2.
a volume forming a part of a larger work.

Origin:
1510–20; < French < Latin tomus < Greek tómos slice, piece, roll of paper, book, akin to témnein to cut

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-tome

a combining form with the meanings “cutting instrument” (microtome; osteotome ), “segment, somite” (sclerotome ), used in the formation of compound words.
Compare tomo-, -tomous, -tomy.


Origin:
combining form representing Greek tomḗ a cutting; tómos a cut, slice; -tomon (neuter), -tomos (masculine) -cutting (adj.)

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tome (təʊm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a large weighty book
2.  one of the several volumes of a work
 
[C16: from French, from Latin tomus section of larger work, from Greek tomos a slice, from temnein to cut; related to Latin tondēre to shear]

-tome
 
n combining form
indicating an instrument for cutting: osteotome
 
[from Greek tomē a cutting, tomos a slice, from temnein to cut]

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Word Origin & History

tome
1510s, from M.Fr. tome, from L. tomus "section of a book, tome," from Gk. tomos "volume, section of a book," originally "section, piece cut off," from temnein "to cut," from PIE *tom-/*tem- "to cut" (cf. second element in L. aestimare "to value, appraise," O.C.S. tina "to cleave, split," M.Ir. tamnaim
"I cut off," Welsh tam "morsel"). Originally "a single volume of a multi-volume work;" sense of "a large book" is attested from 1570s.
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Medical Dictionary

-tome suff.

  1. Part; area; segment: dermatome.

  2. Cutting instrument: microtome.

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