Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church)" in English language version.
The word is 'tomos,' and it was one of the most searched words on Google in Ukraine this year. In Greek, it literally means 'a section' and is related to the verb 'to cut.'
By extension, it came to refer to a section of a papyrus scroll, on which books used to be written, and then to a volume of a book, which is where we also get the English word 'tome'. [...]
In the narrower meaning in Orthodox church terminology, a tomos is indeed a scroll or a small book, but one with a very specific purpose — it codifies a decision by a holy synod, or council of Orthodox bishops.
