tome

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• Received-Pronunciation: tōm
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• Received-Pronunciation: /təʊm/
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• General-American: tōm
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• General-American: /toʊm/
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• rhymes with -əʊm
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• CMU ARPABET: T OW1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, separate”).

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: հատոր (hator) — one in a series of volumes
• Bulgarian: том (tom) — one in a series of volumes
• Catalan: tom — one in a series of volumes
• Chinese Mandarin: 卷 (juàn) — one in a series of volumes
• Dutch: band — one in a series of volumes
• Dutch: deel — one in a series of volumes
• Finnish: nidos — one in a series of volumes
• Finnish: osa — one in a series of volumes
• French: tome — one in a series of volumes
• Georgian: ტომი (ṭomi) — one in a series of volumes
• German: Band — one in a series of volumes
• Greek: τόμος (tómos) — one in a series of volumes
• Ancient Greek: τόμος (tómos) — one in a series of volumes
• Hungarian: kötet — one in a series of volumes
• Icelandic: bindi — one in a series of volumes
• Ido: tomo — one in a series of volumes
• Kazakh: том (tom) — one in a series of volumes
• Macedonian: том (tom) — one in a series of volumes
• Macedonian: свеска (sveska) — one in a series of volumes
• Norwegian Bokmål: bind — one in a series of volumes
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bind — one in a series of volumes
• Polish: tom — one in a series of volumes
• Polish: wolumin — one in a series of volumes
• Portuguese: tomo — one in a series of volumes
• Russian: том (tom) — one in a series of volumes
• Slovene: tom — one in a series of volumes
• Slovene: zvezek — one in a series of volumes
• Spanish: tomo — one in a series of volumes
• Swedish: band — one in a series of volumes
• Swedish: tom — one in a series of volumes
• Bulgarian: тухла (tuhla) — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Catalan: totxo — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Chinese Mandarin: 巨著 (jùzhù) — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Chinese Mandarin: 大部頭 /大部头 (dàbùtóu) — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Finnish: opus — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Finnish: teos — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• French: pavé — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• German: Wälzer — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• German: Schinken — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Greek: τόμος (tómos) — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Hungarian: salabakter — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Hungarian: tómusz — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Irish: mórleabhar — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Italian: librone — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Japanese: 大冊 (taisatsu) — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Japanese: 大著 (taicho) — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Polish: księga — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Portuguese: tomo — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Portuguese: calhamaço — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Portuguese: alfarrábio — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Russian: том (tom) — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Spanish: mamotreto — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Spanish: librote — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Spanish: tocho — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Swedish: lunta — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop
• Swedish: tom — large or scholarly book — see also doorstop