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English

Etymology

From Middle English behemoth, bemoth, from Late Latin behemoth, from Hebrew ?????????? (behemót). The Hebrew word is either:

• an intensive plural of ????????? (behemá, “beast”), from Proto-Semitic (compare Ge'ez ??? (b?hmä, “to be dumb, to be speechless”), Arabic ? ? ?? (b-h-m)), or
• less likely, a borrowing of Egyptian (*p?-j?-mw, “hippopotamus”, literally “the ox of the water”), from p? (“definite article”) + j? (“ox, cattle”) + mw (“water”) in a direct genitive construction; for the pronunciation, cf. the later Coptic descendants ?- (p-) + ??? (ehe) + ???? (moou).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??hi(?)m??/, /?bi???m??/

Noun

behemoth (plural behemoths)

1. (biblical) A great and mighty beast God shows Job in Job 40:15–24.

   Coordinate term: leviathan
2. (by extension) Any great and mighty monster.
3. (figuratively) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.

   Synonyms: colossus, leviathan, mammoth, titan

Derived terms

• behemothian
• behemothic

Translations

See also

• leviathan

Further reading

• behemoth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from ????? (témn?, “I cut, separate”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?m, IPA^(key): /t??m/
• (General American) enPR: t?m, IPA^(key): /to?m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

tome (plural tomes)

1. One in a series of volumes.
2. A large or scholarly book.

   The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.

Translations

Anagrams

• Mote, mote

Asturian

Verb

tome

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of tomar

French

Etymology 1

From Latin tomus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tom/, /t?m/

Noun

tome m (plural tomes)

1. tome, volume
2. section
3. subaltern

Etymology 2

From Franco-Provençal tomme, likely from sense 1 in the sense of asking for a slice of cheese.

Alternative forms

• tomme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

tome f (plural tomes)

1. A variety of mountain cheese

Further reading

• “tome” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

• Oxford University Press (2016): The Oxford Companion to Cheese

Galician

Verb

tome

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of tomar

Japanese

Romanization

tome

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

tome m

1. vocative singular of tomus

References

• tome in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tome in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English t?m and Old Norse tómr, both from Proto-Germanic *t?maz (“free, clear, empty”).

Adjective

tome

1. empty, hollow

Alternative forms

• tom, toume, tombe; toyme, tum, tume (Northern)

Descendants

• English: toom
• Scots: tume, tuim

References

• “t??m(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tom (“leisure, ease”). Compare Icelandic tóm (“empty space; leisure”).

Noun

tome (uncountable)

1. free time, leisure

Alternative forms

• tom, thome; tame (Northern)

Descendants

• English: toom
• Middle Scots: tume, toym, toyme, toume

References

• “t??m(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Adjective

tome

1. (Southwest, southern West Midlands) Alternative form of tame (“tame”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

tome

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tom
2. (non-standard since 2012) plural of tom

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t?.m?/

Verb

tome

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of tomar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of tomar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of tomar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of tomar

Spanish

Verb

tome

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tomar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tomar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tomar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tomar.