tomus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut, separate”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tomus m (genitive tomī); second declension

  1. a section of a larger work
  2. a volume

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tomus tomī
Genitive tomī tomōrum
Dative tomō tomīs
Accusative tomum tomōs
Ablative tomō tomīs
Vocative tome tomī

Descendants
  • → French: tome, tomme (learned)
    • → English: tome
    • → Russian: том m (tom)
  • → Italian: tomo (learned)
  • → Portuguese: tomo (learned)

References
  • “tomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tomus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tomus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *to- + *messus (“measurement, judgement”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtoṽus/

Noun

tomus m

  1. act of weighing, measuring, considering
  2. measure, quantity, amount

Inflection
Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tomus
Vocative
Accusative toimsiu
Genitive toimseo
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
tomus thomus tomus
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Turkmen

Noun

tomus (definite accusative tomusy, plural tomuslar)

  1. summer

Synonyms
  • ýaý
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