Tomé

See also: tome, tomé, and -tome

English

Proper noun

Tomé

1. A commune and city in Chile.
2. A former department of Chile.

Translations

a city in Chile

• Spanish: Tomé (es)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin Thōmās, from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא or תאמא (“twin”), the nickname of one of the Twelve Apostles.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈmɛ/ [t̪oˈmɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: To‧mé

Proper noun

Tomé m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Thomas
2. (biblical) Thomas (one of the Apostles)
3. a patronymical surname

References

• “tome” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tome” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• "Tomé" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /toˈmɛ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈmɛ/

• Rhymes: -ɛ

Proper noun

Tomé m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Thomas
2. (biblical) Thomas (one of the Apostles)

   Synonym: Tomás

Derived terms

• São Tomé

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈme/ [t̪oˈme]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: To‧mé

Proper noun

Tomé f

1. Tomé (a commune and city in Tomé, Chile)
2. (historical) A department of Chile