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tome

  [tohm] ,
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–noun
1. a book, esp. a very heavy, large, or learned book.
2. a volume forming a part of a larger work.
Origin:
1510–20; < F < L tomus < Gk tómos slice, piece, roll of paper, book, akin to témnein to cut

-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:
comb. form repr. Gk tom a cutting; tómos a cut, slice; -tomon (neut.), -tomos (masc.) -cutting (adj.)
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tome   (tōm)   
n.  

  1. One of the books in a work of several volumes.

  2. A book, especially a large or scholarly one.


[French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]
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Medical Dictionary

-tome suff.

  1. Part; area; segment: dermatome.

  2. Cutting instrument: microtome.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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