It's the Word of the Day for January 6th.

Today's word is tome, spelled T-O-M-E.

Tom is a noun. It's a formal word for a book, and especially a very large, thick, often scholarly book.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Hype Beast magazine by Sarah Curran's.

The way that we've approached publishing at Climax is almost having these two very separate worlds

that live perfectly together, Isabella Burley says, of her business's work in both the archival

and contemporary worlds. Climax returned with its second title earlier this month,

a 550-page tome surveying 10 years of images produced between 2014 and 2024 by artist Martine Simms,

whose work examines themes of identity, gender, and black culture. When is a book not a book? When it's a tome, tomb being a word that has always suggested

something less or more than the word book. When tome was first used in English, it referred to a book

that was part of a larger

multi-volume work, which makes sense given that it comes from Tomos, a Greek noun meaning section

or roll of papyrus that comes in turn from the verb temnine, meaning to cut. In ancient times, long scrolls

of papyrus were often divided into sections.

When tome retains this meaning today, it usually refers instead to a book that is larger and

more scholarly than average, as evidenced by some of the most common adjectives that precede it,

including weighty, lengthy, massive, heavy, hefty, and academic.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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