tomes
Portuguese, verb/ˈtõ.mis/
tomes is spelled T-O-M-E-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tomes is a Portuguese verb meaning “second-person singular present subjunctive of tomar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo tomar”.
What does tomes mean in English?
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of tomar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo tomar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce tomes?
- Brazil /ˈtõ.mis/
- /ˈtõ.miʃ/
- Portugal /ˈtɔ.mɨʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tomes in Portuguese?
tomes appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).