tome
/təʊm/noun
- chiefly humorous a book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one〈主幽默〉书; 大部头书; (有学术价值的)巨著:
a weighty tome.
一本沉甸甸的大部头书。
词源
early 16th cent. (denoting one volume of a larger work): from French, via Latin from Greek tomos 'section, roll of papyrus, volume'; related to temnein 'to cut'.