tomo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "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): [ˈtɔ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔː.mo]

Noun

tomō

1. dative/ablative singular of tomus

Māori

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/

• (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/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.mu/

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

Verb

tomo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tomar

Further reading

• “tomo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tomo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin tomuslbor.

Spanish tomobor.

Tagalog tomo

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 person		totomo	fotomo	mitomo
2nd person		notomo	nitomo
3rd person	masculine	otomo	itomo yotomo (archaic)
	feminine	motomo
	neuter	itomo

References

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

Upper Kuskokwim

Noun

tomo

1. swan

References

• Collins, Raymond L.; Petruska, Betty (1979), Dinak'i (Our Words). Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan Junior Dictionary, Anchorage, Alaska: National Bilingual Materials Development Center, University of Alaska, page v