tomus

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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

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tomus tomī
Genitive tomī tomōrum
Dative tomō tomīs
Accusative tomum tomōs
Ablative tomō tomīs
Vocative tome tomī

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

Noun

tomus m

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

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tomus
Vocative
Accusative toimsiu
Genitive toimseo
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tomus thomus tomus
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

Declension of tomus
singular plural
nominative tomus tomuslar
accusative tomusy tomuslary
genitive tomusyň tomuslaryň
dative tomusa tomuslara
locative tomusda tomuslarda
ablative tomusdan tomuslardan

Synonyms

Further reading

  • “tomus” in Webonary.org
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