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tom
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /t?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
From generic use of the proper name Tom.
Noun
tom (plural toms)
- The male of the domesticated cat.
- The male of the turkey.
- The male of the orangutan.
- The male of certain other animals.
- (Britain, slang) A female prostitute.
- (US, slang) A lesbian.
- (music) Clipping of tom-tom.
- (obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
- (Britain, regional, obsolete) A close-stool.
Synonyms
- (male cat): tomcat, he-cat
- (male turkey): turkey-cock
- (male of other animals): male
- (prostitute): See also Thesaurus:prostitute
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Shortened from tomato
Noun
tom (plural toms)
- (Britain, greengrocers' slang) A tomato (the fruit).
- Toms 90p a pound
- 2009, Mark Penny, ?Jonathan Penny, The Golden Pig (page 160)
- “I'd like sausage, eggs, bacon, toms, mushies, beans – oh, and some fried bread,” said Mike.
Etymology 3
Rhyming slang from tomfoolery.
Noun
tom (uncountable)
- (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery
Etymology 4
From Uncle Tom.
Verb
tom (third-person singular simple present toms, present participle tomming, simple past and past participle tommed)
- (intransitive, derogatory, of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.
Etymology 5
Verb
tom (third-person singular simple present toms, present participle tomming, simple past and past participle tommed)
- (nautical) To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.
Anagrams
- MOT, Mot, OMT, OTM, TMO, mot
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse tómr, from Proto-Germanic *t?maz (“empty”) .
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t??m?]
- Rhymes: -?m
Adjective
tom (neuter tomt, plural and definite singular attributive tomme)
- empty
References
- “tom” in Den Danske Ordbog
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish tom (“bush, tuft; hillock, knoll”).
Pronunciation
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /t??u?m?/
Noun
tom m (genitive singular toim, nominative plural toim or tomacha)
- bush, shrub
- Synonym: tor
- clump, tuft, tussock
Declension
- Alternative plural: tomacha (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
- tomach (“bushy; tufted”)
Etymology 2
Noun
tom m (genitive singular toma, nominative plural tomanna)
- Alternative form of taom (“fit, paroxysm”)
Declension
Etymology 3
Verb
tom (present analytic tomann, future analytic tomfaidh, verbal noun tomadh, past participle tomtha)
- Alternative form of tum (“dip, immerse”)
Conjugation
Mutation
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t?m]
Determiner
tom
- locative masculine singular of ten
- locative neuter singular of ten
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adjective
tom
- Alternative form of tome (“empty”)
Etymology 2
Noun
tom (uncountable)
- Alternative form of tome (“freetime”)
Etymology 3
Adjective
tom
- (Southwest, southern West Midlands) Alternative form of tame (“tame”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse tómr
Adjective
tom (neuter singular tomt, definite singular and plural tomme, comparative tommere, indefinite superlative tommest, definite superlative tommeste)
- empty
Derived terms
- halvtom
- tomflaske
- tomhet
Related terms
- tømme
References
- “tom” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse tómr
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?m?/ (example of pronunciation)
Adjective
tom (neuter singular tomt, definite singular and plural tomme, comparative tommare, indefinite superlative tommast, definite superlative tommaste)
- empty
Derived terms
- halvtom
- tomflaske
Related terms
- tømme, tømma
Etymology 2
From Old Norse taumr.
Noun
tom m (definite singular tommen, indefinite plural tommar, definite plural tommane)
- Alternative form of taum; form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by taum
Derived terms
- fortom
References
- “tom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- mot, t.o.m.
Oksapmin
Noun
tom
- water
References
- Robyn Loughnane, A Grammar of Oksapmin (April 2009), page 58
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *t?maz (“empty”). Akin to Old Norse tómr (“empty”), whence Icelandic tómur (“empty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /to?m/
Adjective
t?m
- empty
- (figuratively) free from
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: tome, tom, toume, tombe
- English: toom
- Scots: tume, tuim
Polish
Etymology
From Latin tomus, from Ancient Greek ????? (tómos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t???m]
Noun
tom m inan
- volume (single book of a publication issued in multi-book format)
Declension
Further reading
- tom in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- tom in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin tonus (and influenced by som; compare the Spanish ton, variant of the standard tono, which underwent a similar change, influenced by son, respectively), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “tone”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”). Cf. also trom, a possible doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tõ/
- Hyphenation: tom
- Rhymes: -õ
Noun
tom m (plural tons)
- tone or pitch (property of sound determined by the frequency)
- (music) tone (interval of a major second)
- (music) key
See also
- trom
Romanian
Etymology
From French tome, from Latin tomus.
Noun
tom n (plural tomuri)
- volume
Declension
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???um/
Noun
tom m (genitive singular tuim, plural toman or tomannan)
- round hillock or knoll, rising ground, swell, green eminence
- any round heap
- tuft of anything
- bush, thicket
- anthill
- (Islay) stool
- volume of a book
- bank
- grave
- (medicine, rare) the plague
- conical knoll
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tó?m/
Noun
t??m m inan
- tome
Inflection
See also
- zvézek
Further reading
- “tom”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse tómr.
Pronunciation
- (Sweden) IPA(key): /tum/
Adjective
tom
- empty
Declension
Antonyms
- full
Related terms
Etymology 2
Used in Swedish since 1697. From French tome, Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from ????? (témn?, “I cut, separate”). Cognate with English tome.
Pronunciation
- (Sweden) IPA(key): /to?m/
Noun
tom c
- A tome, a volume (in a series of books), a (thick) book.
Declension
Related terms
- tomtals
References
- tom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
- mot
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse tómr (“empty,”) from Proto-Germanic *t?maz, of unknown origin.
Adjective
tom (neuter tomt)
- empty
- bare
- hungry, stingy
Derived terms
- tommen
- tommom
- tåomång
- tom-hunn
See also
- santom
- tommäs
Zuni
Pronoun
tom
- Second person singular possessive (medial position)
- your
- Second person singular object
- you
Related terms
- to'
- tomma
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