tome

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, separate”).

1. One in a series of volumes.
2. A large or scholarly book.

   “The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.”

   “And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.”