Skip to content

tomo

volume

noun TOH-moh Rare
Arts & Culture Literature

Origin: Greek tomos (a cut, a section of a book), via Latin tomus.

Also means

tome

Usage Note

Tomo specifically means a volume or tome — a single book within a multi-volume work: el segundo tomo de la enciclopedia. It is not the same as volumen, which can refer to physical volume or sound level as well. The phrase de tomo y lomo ('of note', 'full-blown') is a fixed idiom meaning 'through and through': un sinvergüenza de tomo y lomo ('an out-and-out scoundrel').

Examples

"Este es el tercer tomo de la serie."

Natural Translation

This is the third volume of the series.

Free starter pack

Building your Spanish vocabulary?

Get the 100 most common Spanish words as a free PDF — one email, no spam.

Explore Spanish by topic