different between toze vs tome

English

Etymology

From Middle English tosen, from Old English *t?san.

Verb

toze (third-person singular simple present tozes, present participle tozing, simple past and past participle tozed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pull violently; to touse.

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.