tomen.

Brit.

/təʊm/, U.S.

/toʊm/

Forms: 1500s toombe, 1500s– tome; also Scottish pre-1700 tombe, pre-1700 thome.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin tomus.

Etymology: < classical Latin tomus piece or length of papyrus, in post-classical Latin also roll of papyrus (Vetus Latina), volume, book (4th cent.), synodical or pontifical letter or epistle (4th cent.), letter (6th cent.) < ancient Greek τόμος slice, piece cut off, in Hellenistic Greek also roll of papyrus, volume, section of a book, in Byzantine Greek also synodical letter or decree (4th cent.) < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the base of τέμνειν to cut (see -tomy comb. form).Compare Middle French, French tome book, volume (a1544), each of the separate volumes of a book (1549), and also Spanish tomo, Portuguese tomo (both first half of the 16th cent.), Italian tomo (14th cent.).

1. Each of the largest parts or sections of a single volume of a book; (also) each of the separate volumes of a book. Now rare except as merged with sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > main subdivision of large work

bookOE

tome1519

volume1523

code1607

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 84 A tome proprely is but a peace vnperfecte of a boke neuer the lesse, it is taken for a great quantyte of a whole warke.

1548 N. Udall (title) The first tome of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe Testamente.

1579 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 200 Of the First thome of the Palace of plesour thrie.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 53 The said volume is diuided into three tomes.

1659 R. Baxter Key for Catholicks i. xxv. 151 A large volume containing six Tomes.

a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 503 I read over to him my own Triennial Travells abroad, in 3 tombes.

1731 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 2 493 To the IVth Tome will be prefixed a Collection of..Pieces, relating to the Life and Writings of the Author.

1813 A. Chalmers Gen. Biogr. Dict. (new ed.) VII. 85 This edition of his works, though bound in one large volume, folio, is divided into four tomes.

1878 Standard 17 Aug. 3/2 Desjardins was foremost in the new researches, and had published the first tome of a handsome work.

1908 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. July 157 His first five volumes, each divided into two tomes in the English translation.

2005 N. D. Larson Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn & Mod. Russo-Jewish Question iii. 22 The earliest Tsarist history of Russian Jewry is given in-depth analysis in the first tome of Solzhenitsyn's Two Hundred Years Together.

2. A book, a volume; (now) esp. a large, heavy, or scholarly one. Also: a single written or printed work made up of more than one volume. Now archaic and humorous.Now the usual sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > [noun]

bookeOE

volumec1380

biblet1388

volumenc1540

tome?1570

bk.1645

vol.1682

?1570 R. B. in tr. Y. Rouspeau Treat. Prepar. Holy Supper Ep. Ded. sig. A.iii^v Though the Volume be not large,..there is as great consolation to be found for the repentant sinner as in bigger Tomes.

1573 (title) The whole workes of..Tyndall..Frith, and..Barnes..collected and compiled in one Tome together.

1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) i. ii. iv. vii. 148 To what end are so many great Tomes.

1687 in tr. G. P. Marana Lett. Turkish Spy I. To Rdr. sig. A3 He..had but few Moveables, only some Books, a small Tome of St. Austin, Tacitus, and the Alcoran.

1730 W. Shenstone Ode to Health 30 Adieu, Ye midnight lamps! ye curious tomes!

1789 J. White Earl Strongbow I. 159 Father Hugh..prayed my acceptance of a little tome, covered with fine vellum.

1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies I. iv. 63 Ponderous tomes, in century-old bindings,—dusty files of newspapers.

1890 H. Caine Bondman II. ix. 200 ‘Bring me the Statute Book,’ and the great tome was brought.

1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 509/1 A formidable tome of nearly 900 pages, beautifully printed on Bible paper.

1963 Acad. Managem. Jrnl. 6 322 It was a weighty tome in two volumes containing hundreds of statistical tables.

2004 P. Gilmour Sexy Football xi. 58 These words were all found in the Oxford English Dictionary which was generally regarded as a fairly respectable tome.

3. figurative and in figurative contexts, frequently in the tome of ——. A notional book or work considered as a record, repository, or embodiment, esp. of an abstract concept or quality, or as an example or a source of instruction; (also) the story or narrative relating to a specified concept or event. Cf. book n. 6.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > imaginary or reputed book

book of lifeOE

book1561

tome1610

1610 M. Stoneham Treat. First Psalme 62 If they would..meditate some-what more seriouslye on the bookes of Nature, conteined in the greater volume of the great World; and the smaller Tome of Man him-selfe.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 167 Who knowes..how many volumes of Spheares involve one another, how many tomes of Gods Creatures there are?

1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 54 Seventhly, the Booke of mens Afflictions. Some account this onely a distinct Tome, or Volume, of the former Booke [sc. Book of Men's Actions].

1793 J. Thelwall Peripatetic I. 160 If bold Science her assistance lend—If to her deep recesses we descend—If there the tome mysterious we explore, Of Nature's genuine theologic lore.

1823 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Jan. 66/2 Time is but a few short pages In the tome of endless ages.

1867 P. J. Bailey Universal Hymn 9 He through your space-spread tome..His starry rede To man predictive speaks.

1927 N.Y. Times 21 June 24 Another dot-like entry in the tome Of dauntless men who sail down to the sea.

2004 C. Karasyov & J. Kargman Right Addr. xl. 200 The electroshock-torturous words were already emblazoned in the memories of everyone, engraving her in the tome of scandal for all eternity.

4. Church History. A papal letter or epistle.Chiefly with reference to the Tome of Damasus, sent by Pope Damasus I to Paulinus, Bishop of Antioch, some time after 377, and the Tome of Leo, sent by Pope Leo I to Flavian, the Patriarch of Constantinople, in 449, both setting forth the Christological doctrine of the Western Church and condemning heresy.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > papal documents > [noun]

tome1624

1624 R. Broughton Eccl. Protestant Hist. Popes iv. 61 By that Tome of Saint Anacletus Pope, it was conteyned and decreed, how manie and which were the places throughout all this Iland euen as it conteyned England, Scotland, and Wales.

1683 tr. H. de Valois in tr. Eusebius et al. Hist. Church iii. xvii. 458/1 (margin) Petrus Alexandrinus anathematizing the Chalcedon Synod and Pope Leo's Tome.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlvii. 827 The tome of Leo was subscribed by the Oriental bishops.

1867 H. E. Manning Petri Privilegium (1871) 73 The Council of Chalcedon was directed by S. Leo to condemn Eutyches... The Fathers of the Council would define nothing until they had heard the Tome, or dogmatic letter of the Pontiff.

1911 C. H. Turner in H. M. Gwatkin & J. P. Whitney Cambr. Medieval Hist. I. vi. 173 The East could do no better than accept the Tome of Damasus, as seventy years later it accepted the Tome of Leo.

1926 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 12 156 In Egypt Nestorius read the Tome of Pope Leo the Great and rejoiced.

2012 A. Nichols Chalice of God iii. 48 I understand the formula to be primarily a reflection of the thinking of St Cyril, albeit with significant touches from the Tome of Pope St Leo.

Derivatives

† tomecide n. [ < tome n. + -cide comb. form¹] Obsolete a person who destroys books.Apparently an isolated use. N.E.D. (1913) gives the pronunciation of the first element as (ˈtǫ·mĭ-) /ˈtɒmɪ-/.

ΚΠ

1849 R. Curzon Visits to Monasteries Levant 382 I ought, perhaps, to have slain the tomecide for his dreadful act of profanation.

ˈtomelet n. a small volume or book.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > small book

libel1382

livreta1450

pamphlet1496

pocketbook1617

bookling1782

bookie1787

tomelet1839

volumette1857

booklet1859

1839 Q. Rev. June 84 They spun out their gossamer delicately-organised tomelets to the rapture of boarding-school misses.

1884 Irish Monthly Jan. 52 This dainty tomelet.

2011 H. Ormsby-Lennon Hey Presto v. 104 As flimsy as the feuilletons and tomelets of a chapman's pannier.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tome
释义	tomen. Brit. /təʊm/, U.S. /toʊm/ Forms: 1500s toombe, 1500s– tome; also Scottish pre-1700 tombe, pre-1700 thome. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin tomus. Etymology: < classical Latin tomus piece or length of papyrus, in post-classical Latin also roll of papyrus (Vetus Latina), volume, book (4th cent.), synodical or pontifical letter or epistle (4th cent.), letter (6th cent.) < ancient Greek τόμος slice, piece cut off, in Hellenistic Greek also roll of papyrus, volume, section of a book, in Byzantine Greek also synodical letter or decree (4th cent.) < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the base of τέμνειν to cut (see -tomy comb. form).Compare Middle French, French tome book, volume (a1544), each of the separate volumes of a book (1549), and also Spanish tomo, Portuguese tomo (both first half of the 16th cent.), Italian tomo (14th cent.). 1. Each of the largest parts or sections of a single volume of a book; (also) each of the separate volumes of a book. Now rare except as merged with sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > main subdivision of large work bookOE tome1519 volume1523 code1607 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 84 A tome proprely is but a peace vnperfecte of a boke neuer the lesse, it is taken for a great quantyte of a whole warke. 1548 N. Udall (title) The first tome of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe Testamente. 1579 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 200 Of the First thome of the Palace of plesour thrie. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 53 The said volume is diuided into three tomes. 1659 R. Baxter Key for Catholicks i. xxv. 151 A large volume containing six Tomes. a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 503 I read over to him my own Triennial Travells abroad, in 3 tombes. 1731 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 2 493 To the IVth Tome will be prefixed a Collection of..Pieces, relating to the Life and Writings of the Author. 1813 A. Chalmers Gen. Biogr. Dict. (new ed.) VII. 85 This edition of his works, though bound in one large volume, folio, is divided into four tomes. 1878 Standard 17 Aug. 3/2 Desjardins was foremost in the new researches, and had published the first tome of a handsome work. 1908 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. July 157 His first five volumes, each divided into two tomes in the English translation. 2005 N. D. Larson Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn & Mod. Russo-Jewish Question iii. 22 The earliest Tsarist history of Russian Jewry is given in-depth analysis in the first tome of Solzhenitsyn's Two Hundred Years Together. 2. A book, a volume; (now) esp. a large, heavy, or scholarly one. Also: a single written or printed work made up of more than one volume. Now archaic and humorous.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [noun] bookeOE volumec1380 biblet1388 volumenc1540 tome?1570 bk.1645 vol.1682 ?1570 R. B. in tr. Y. Rouspeau Treat. Prepar. Holy Supper Ep. Ded. sig. A.iii^v Though the Volume be not large,..there is as great consolation to be found for the repentant sinner as in bigger Tomes. 1573 (title) The whole workes of..Tyndall..Frith, and..Barnes..collected and compiled in one Tome together. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) i. ii. iv. vii. 148 To what end are so many great Tomes. 1687 in tr. G. P. Marana Lett. Turkish Spy I. To Rdr. sig. A3 He..had but few Moveables, only some Books, a small Tome of St. Austin, Tacitus, and the Alcoran. 1730 W. Shenstone Ode to Health 30 Adieu, Ye midnight lamps! ye curious tomes! 1789 J. White Earl Strongbow I. 159 Father Hugh..prayed my acceptance of a little tome, covered with fine vellum. 1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies I. iv. 63 Ponderous tomes, in century-old bindings,—dusty files of newspapers. 1890 H. Caine Bondman II. ix. 200 ‘Bring me the Statute Book,’ and the great tome was brought. 1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 509/1 A formidable tome of nearly 900 pages, beautifully printed on Bible paper. 1963 Acad. Managem. Jrnl. 6 322 It was a weighty tome in two volumes containing hundreds of statistical tables. 2004 P. Gilmour Sexy Football xi. 58 These words were all found in the Oxford English Dictionary which was generally regarded as a fairly respectable tome. 3. figurative and in figurative contexts, frequently in the tome of ——. A notional book or work considered as a record, repository, or embodiment, esp. of an abstract concept or quality, or as an example or a source of instruction; (also) the story or narrative relating to a specified concept or event. Cf. book n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > imaginary or reputed book book of lifeOE book1561 tome1610 1610 M. Stoneham Treat. First Psalme 62 If they would..meditate some-what more seriouslye on the bookes of Nature, conteined in the greater volume of the great World; and the smaller Tome of Man him-selfe. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 167 Who knowes..how many volumes of Spheares involve one another, how many tomes of Gods Creatures there are? 1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 54 Seventhly, the Booke of mens Afflictions. Some account this onely a distinct Tome, or Volume, of the former Booke [sc. Book of Men's Actions]. 1793 J. Thelwall Peripatetic I. 160 If bold Science her assistance lend—If to her deep recesses we descend—If there the tome mysterious we explore, Of Nature's genuine theologic lore. 1823 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Jan. 66/2 Time is but a few short pages In the tome of endless ages. 1867 P. J. Bailey Universal Hymn 9 He through your space-spread tome..His starry rede To man predictive speaks. 1927 N.Y. Times 21 June 24 Another dot-like entry in the tome Of dauntless men who sail down to the sea. 2004 C. Karasyov & J. Kargman Right Addr. xl. 200 The electroshock-torturous words were already emblazoned in the memories of everyone, engraving her in the tome of scandal for all eternity. 4. Church History. A papal letter or epistle.Chiefly with reference to the Tome of Damasus, sent by Pope Damasus I to Paulinus, Bishop of Antioch, some time after 377, and the Tome of Leo, sent by Pope Leo I to Flavian, the Patriarch of Constantinople, in 449, both setting forth the Christological doctrine of the Western Church and condemning heresy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > papal documents > [noun] tome1624 1624 R. Broughton Eccl. Protestant Hist. Popes iv. 61 By that Tome of Saint Anacletus Pope, it was conteyned and decreed, how manie and which were the places throughout all this Iland euen as it conteyned England, Scotland, and Wales. 1683 tr. H. de Valois in tr. Eusebius et al. Hist. Church iii. xvii. 458/1 (margin) Petrus Alexandrinus anathematizing the Chalcedon Synod and Pope Leo's Tome. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlvii. 827 The tome of Leo was subscribed by the Oriental bishops. 1867 H. E. Manning Petri Privilegium (1871) 73 The Council of Chalcedon was directed by S. Leo to condemn Eutyches... The Fathers of the Council would define nothing until they had heard the Tome, or dogmatic letter of the Pontiff. 1911 C. H. Turner in H. M. Gwatkin & J. P. Whitney Cambr. Medieval Hist. I. vi. 173 The East could do no better than accept the Tome of Damasus, as seventy years later it accepted the Tome of Leo. 1926 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 12 156 In Egypt Nestorius read the Tome of Pope Leo the Great and rejoiced. 2012 A. Nichols Chalice of God iii. 48 I understand the formula to be primarily a reflection of the thinking of St Cyril, albeit with significant touches from the Tome of Pope St Leo. Derivatives † tomecide n. [ < tome n. + -cide comb. form¹] Obsolete a person who destroys books.Apparently an isolated use. N.E.D. (1913) gives the pronunciation of the first element as (ˈtǫ·mĭ-) /ˈtɒmɪ-/. ΚΠ 1849 R. Curzon Visits to Monasteries Levant 382 I ought, perhaps, to have slain the tomecide for his dreadful act of profanation. ˈtomelet n. a small volume or book. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > small book libel1382 livreta1450 pamphlet1496 pocketbook1617 bookling1782 bookie1787 tomelet1839 volumette1857 booklet1859 1839 Q. Rev. June 84 They spun out their gossamer delicately-organised tomelets to the rapture of boarding-school misses. 1884 Irish Monthly Jan. 52 This dainty tomelet. 2011 H. Ormsby-Lennon Hey Presto v. 104 As flimsy as the feuilletons and tomelets of a chapman's pannier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : -tomecomb. form < n.1519 see also
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