tomus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, section, roll of papyrus, volume), from τέμνω (témnō, I cut, separate).

Pronunciation

Noun

tomus m (genitive tomī); second declension

  1. a section of a larger work
  2. a volume

Declension

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Descendants

  • French: tome, tomme (learned)
    • English: tome
    • Romanian: tom
    • Russian: том m (tom)
  • Italian: tomo (learned)
  • Polish: tom
  • Portuguese: tomo (learned)
  • Spanish: tomo (learned)

References

  • tomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tomus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tomus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *to- + *messus (measurement, judgement), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (to measure).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoṽus/

Noun

tomus m

  1. act of weighing, measuring, considering
  2. measure, quantity, amount

Inflection

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) thomus Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Turkmen

Noun

tomus (definite accusative tomusy, plural tomuslar)

  1. summer

Declension

Synonyms

  • ýaý

Further reading

  • tomus” in Webonary.org
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