## Etymology
From French tome, from Latin tomus ('a section, volume'), from Ancient Greek tomos ('a piece cut off, a volume'), from temnein ('to cut').

## AI Etymology
Tome comes from French tome, from Latin tomus ('a section, volume'), from Ancient Greek tomos ('a piece cut off, a volume'), from temnein ('to cut'). The historical chain includes Latin tomus, Ancient Greek τόμος, and Ancient Greek τέμνειν. The quoted older senses, "a section, volume", "a piece cut off, a volume", and "to cut", supply the semantic anchors for tome. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word tome carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a large, heavy, or scholarly book". Related English forms include tomic. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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