different between teme vs tome

English

Etymology

Blend of technological +? meme; introduced by Susan Blackmore in 2008.

Noun

teme (plural temes)

1. A meme which lives in a technological artifact rather than the human mind.

Anagrams

• etem, meet, mete, teem

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

teme

1. Obsolete spelling of temeh

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin tim?re, present active infinitive of time?.

Verb

teme

1. fear

Dutch

Verb

teme

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of temen

Italian

Pronunciation

• téme or tème
• IPA^(key): /?teme/ or IPA^(key): /?t?me/

Verb

teme

1. third-person singular indicative present of temere

Anagrams

• mete

Japanese

Romanization

teme

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English t?am, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.

Alternative forms

• tem, team, them, theam, tæm, teome, teem, teeme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??m/

Noun

teme (plural temes)

2. kinfolk, clan, people
3. (law) The privilege of making decisions about ownership disputes between a person's subordinates.
4. A group of livestock used to pull an agricultural instrument
5. A group of waterfowl or chickens.
6. descendants, children; also extended to the following:
   1. (law) The descendants of one's subordinates.
7. (rare) The ability to procreate or give birth.
8. (rare) team, company, band.

Related terms

• barntem

Descendants

• English: team
• Scots: team

References

• “t?m(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 2

From Old French teme, tesme, from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek ???? (théma).

Alternative forms

• tyme, theme, teeme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??m(?)/

Noun

teme (plural temes)

2. topic, focus, matter
3. document, text

Descendants

• English: theme
• Scots: theme (obsolete)

References

• “t?me, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 3

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to give birth, to support”)

Etymology 4

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to drain, to empty”)

Etymology 5

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to tame”)

Etymology 6

Noun

teme

1. (Northern ME) Alternative form of tyme (“time”)

Portuguese

Verb

teme

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of temer
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of temer

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tim?re, present active infinitive of time?, through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *t?m?re.

Verb

a teme (third-person singular present teme, past participle temut) 3rd conj.

1. (reflexive) to fear

Conjugation

Derived terms

• temere

Related terms

• team?
• team?t
• temoare

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): tj?me

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?m?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tême/
• Hyphenation: te?me

Noun

t?me n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. top, crown (of the head)
2. top, apex

Declension

Spanish

Verb

teme

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of temer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of temer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of temer.

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Noun

teme

1. plural of tietetu

Wauja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.m?/

Noun

teme

1. tapir, Tapirus terrestris

References

• E. Ireland field notes, confirmed with Piitsa, Muri, and other elders (all experienced hunters) in 1982 using José Cândido de Melo Carvalho's Atlas da Fauna Brasileira, Edições Melhoramentos, São Paulo, 1981.

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.