different between tyme vs tome

English

Noun

tyme (countable and uncountable, plural tymes)

1. Archaic spelling of time.

Anagrams

• etym, ymet

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek ????? (thúmon).

Alternative forms

• time, thime

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tim/, /ti?m/

Noun

tyme (uncountable)

2. thyme (plants in the genus Thymus)

Descendants

• English: thyme

References

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

Etymology 2

From Old English t?ma, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô. Doublet of demon.

Alternative forms

• timæ, time, teyme, teme, tyma, tym, tim, tima

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?m(?)/

Noun

tyme (plural tymes or tymen)

2. time (as a concept)
3. A specific duration or period of time; the following specific uses are most common:
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem”

   1. A reign; a period of time where a person holds an office.
   2. A lifetime; the time which a person's life is composed of.
   3. A portion of a larger period of time (e.g. a year; a day), especially a season or yeartide.
   4. A step or stage of a process or event.
   5. A ephemeral, momentane or very short duration; a point of time or instance.
4. A generic reference to some vaguely-specified or unspecified duration or point of time.
5. An occasion, event, or occurence; a specific time.
6. times; multiplied by (usually in the plural)
7. Specifies the ratio of comparison in a comparative sentence.
8. (grammar) Verbal tense; the way time is morphologically marked on a verb.

Derived terms

• timen
• tymeful
• tymely

Descendants

• English: time
• Scots: time, teime, tim
• Yola: deemes (plural)

References

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

Etymology 3

Noun

tyme

1. Alternative form of teme (“topic”)

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.