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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-772/
- Published: 2022-03-11T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-15T19:02:10.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

The word for today is…

tome (noun):

1 : book especially : a large or scholarly book  
2 : a volume forming part of a larger work

\-tome (noun combining form)

1 : part, segment – e.g. myotome  
2 : cutting instrument – e.g. microtome

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tome?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Tome comes from Greek tomos, meaning “section” or “roll of papyrus.” The Greek is related to the verb temnein, “to cut”; in ancient times, long scrolls of papyrus were divided into sections. When tome was first used in English, it referred to a book that was a part of a multi-volume work or a major part of a single-volume book.

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