tomo

See also: Tomo, tomó, Tomō, tömő, tomo-, and -tomo

English

Etymology

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Noun

tomo (plural tomos)

1. (New Zealand) A shaft formed in limestone rock dissolved by groundwater.

Asturian

Verb

tomo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tomar

Catalan

Verb

tomo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tomar

Galician

Verb

tomo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tomar

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tomus, from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɔmo
• Hyphenation: tò‧mo

Noun

tomo m (plural tomi)

1. tome, volume
2. an oddball, a weirdo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.mo/, /ˈtɔ.mo/
• Rhymes: -omo, -ɔmo
• Hyphenation: tó‧mo, tò‧mo

Noun

tomo m (plural tomi)

1. (archaic) fall, tumble

   fare il tomo ― to fall headlong, to tumble

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.mo/, /ˈtɔ.mo/
• Rhymes: -omo, -ɔmo
• Hyphenation: tó‧mo, tò‧mo

Verb

tomo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tomare

Anagrams

• moto, moto-

Japanese

Romanization

tomo

1. Rōmaji transcription of とも

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈto.moː/, [ˈt̪ɔmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mo/, [ˈt̪ɔːmo]

Noun

tomō

1. dative/ablative singular of tomus

Maori

Verb

tomo (used in the form tomo-kia)

1. to enter

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, to separate”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtõ.mu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtõ.mu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mu/

Noun

tomo m (plural tomos)

1. volume, tome (book which is part of a series)

   Synonym: volume

2. (figurative) importance; value

   Synonyms: importância, valor

3. (figurative) fundament; basis

   Synonyms: fundamento, base

4. (figurative) part; component

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtõ.mu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtõ.mu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.mu/

• Rhymes: -ɔmu, (Brazil) -õmu
• Hyphenation: to‧mo

Verb

tomo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tomar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtomo/ [ˈt̪o.mo]
• Rhymes: -omo
• Syllabification: to‧mo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tomus.

Noun

tomo m (plural tomos)

1. tome, volume

   Synonym: libro

Derived terms

• de tomo y lomo

 

Related terms

• anatomía
• átomo
• epítome

 

Etymology 2

Verb

tomo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tomar

Further reading

• “tomo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomo.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtomo/ [ˈt̪oː.mo]
• Rhymes: -omo
• Syllabification: to‧mo

Noun

tomo (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜋᜓ)

1. tome; volume

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈto.mo]

Verb

tomo

1. (transitive) to go against

Conjugation

Conjugation of tomo
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totomo	fotomo	mitomo
2nd	notomo	nitomo
3rd	Masculine	otomo	itomo, yotomo†
Feminine	motomo
Neuter	itomo
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh