τόμος

See also: τομός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”) +‎ -ος (-os). Hypothetically inherited from Proto-Hellenic *tómos, from Proto-Indo-European *tómh₁-o-s, from *temh₁- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tó.mos/ → /ˈto.mos/ → /ˈto.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tó.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mos/

Noun

τόμος • (tómos) m (genitive τόμου); second declension

1. slice, piece
2. piece of land
3. (geometry) frustum
4. roll of papyrus, tome, volume

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τόμος; τοῦ τόμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τόμος ho tómos	τὼ τόμω tṑ tómō	οἱ τόμοι hoi tómoi
Genitive	τοῦ τόμου toû tómou	τοῖν τόμοιν toîn tómoin	τῶν τόμων tôn tómōn
Dative	τῷ τόμῳ tôi tómōi	τοῖν τόμοιν toîn tómoin	τοῖς τόμοις toîs tómois
Accusative	τὸν τόμον tòn tómon	τὼ τόμω tṑ tómō	τοὺς τόμους toùs tómous
Vocative	τόμε tóme	τόμω tómō	τόμοι tómoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄτομος (átomos)
• ἔντομον (éntomon)
• ἔντομος (éntomos)

Descendants

• → Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac script: ܛܘܡܣܐ (ṭūmsā)

• → Latin: tomus
  • → French: tome, tomme (learned)
    • → English: tome
    • → Romanian: tom
    • → Russian: том m (tom)
  • → Italian: tomo (learned)
  • → Polish: tom
  • → Portuguese: tomo (learned)
  • → Spanish: tomo (learned)
• → Old Armenian: տոմս (toms), տոմ (tom)
• → Old Armenian: հատոր (hator) (semantic loan)

References

• “τόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bit idem, page 80.
  • cut idem, page 192.
  • fragment idem, page 342.
  • morsel idem, page 541.
  • scrap idem, page 742.
  • slice idem, page 784.
  • strip idem, page 826.