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TomEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Aramaic תאמא Aramaic תאומא (təʾōmā)bor. Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs)bor. Latin Thōmāsbor. Middle English Thomas Middle English Thomme English Tom From Middle English Thomme. Hypocorism of Thomas. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Thomas Jefferson featured on it.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗TomEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Aramaic תאמא Aramaic תאומא (təʾōmā)bor. Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs)bor. Latin Thōmāsbor. Middle English Thomas Middle English Thomme English Tom From Middle English Thomme. Hypocorism of Thomas. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Thomas Jefferson featured on it.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗TomEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Variant of TOM (“time of the month”) influenced by the name.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗TomEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Possibly onomatopoeia, conflated with the given name, given the practice of giving objects such as Big Ben human names. Alternatively, it may derive from an inscription on the old bell used as metal to make the Great Tom of Oxford in 1680: In Thomæ laude resono bim bom sine fraude.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tomEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Aramaic תאמא Aramaic תאומא (təʾōmā)bor. Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs)bor. Latin Thōmāsbor. Middle English Thomas Middle English Thomme English Tom English tom From generic use of the proper name Tom.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tomEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Shortened from tomato
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tomEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Rhyming slang from tomfoolery.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tomEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Uncle Tom.
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