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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.
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tome (təʊm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
-tome suff.
Part; area; segment: dermatome.
Cutting instrument: microtome.
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Example sentences
If you didn't know the book's vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome.
No dusty tome written over two thousand years ago is going to disprove evolution.
Bookshops were bombed and the tome was burned in public across the world.
Anything that's not a tome and not weighed down with political invective is appreciated.
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