A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin


-tomus,-a,-um (adj.A): see -tomous.
-tomus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. -tomo: see English noun suffix ‘-tome,’ q.v.
-tomus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. -tomo: see English noun suffix ‘-tome,’ q.v.
Tomus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. tomo, nom. pl. tomi, gen.pl. tomorum, acc. pl. tomos: tome (Eng. noun), a volume; “a volume forming part of a larger work; a book; a large, ponderous or a scholarly volume” (WIII); one of a series of books forming a complete work or collection” (Mirriam-Webster) [> L. tomus,-i (s.m.II) = “Gk. tomos: a cut, piece, slice, section, bit; a part, book, tome (of a larger work); a book” (Lewis & Short); “a piece or length of papyrus > Gk. tomos” (Glare); cf. Gk. temnein, to cut]; see volume; see book; - [Muscorum Frondosorum] Tomus Primus; Tomus Secundus (Hedw.), first part (volume); second part (volume) (i.e. parts of a larger work). - TOMUS PRIMUS. PAR1SIIS, apud editorem L. G. DESGRANGES, in vico Haut-Feuille. No 14. Typis C. PANCKOUCKE. ANNO SEXTO RElPUBLICI GALLICAE (Desf.), First Volume. At Paris, at [the place of business of] the publisher L. G. Desgranges, in the street Haut-Feuille No. 14. At the printshop of C. Panckoucke. In the Sixth year of the French Republic [ca. 1798]. NOTE: abbrev. = t., tom., (book) ‘volume,’ (see t.(3). NOTE: t.c., or tom. cit.: abbrev. tomus,-i (s.m.II) citatus (part.A), ‘volume cited’ (Stearn); see t.(4).