tam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tam"

English

Etymology 1

Short for tam o'shanter.

Noun

tam (plural tams)

  1. Synonym of tam o'shanter, a type of cap.
    • 1988 July 1, Bryan Miller, “A Gathering of Scots”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      Despite the blaze of sunshine, woolens were everywhere: tams, kilts, socks drawn up to knobby knees.

Etymology 2

From the Cantonese pronunciation of 擔

Noun

tam (plural tams)

  1. Synonym of picul, a unit of weight, particularly in Cantonese contexts.

Anagrams

Chewong

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑm/

Noun

tam

  1. water

References

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

tam

  1. teeming, full

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tam/
  • audio(file)

Adverb

tam

  1. there (in or at that place or location)
  2. there (to or into that place)

Antonyms

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish tam, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

Adjective

tam

  1. tame

Inflection

Inflection of tam
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular tam tammere tammest2
Neuter singular tamt tammere tammest2
Plural tamme tammere tammest2
Definite attributive1 tamme tammere tammeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *tam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑm

Adjective

tam (comparative tammer, superlative tamst)

  1. tame, not wild
  2. (figuratively) boring, unexciting, bland

Inflection

Inflection of tam
uninflected tam
inflected tamme
comparative tammer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial tamtammerhet tamst
het tamste
indefinite m./f. sing. tammetammeretamste
n. sing. tamtammertamste
plural tammetammeretamste
definite tammetammeretamste
partitive tamstammers—

Descendants

Anagrams

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tam.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tam/

Adverb

tam

  1. as (in comparison), so (followed by an adj.)

See also

  • kam (“than, as, to (in comparison)”)

Kurdish

Noun

tam ?

  1. taste

Derived terms

  • bêtam
  • bêtamî
  • bêtamîtî
  • bêtamtî
  • bitam
  • bitamî
  • bitamîtî
  • bitamtî
  • tamandin
  • tamandî
  • tamdar
  • tamdarî
  • tamdarîtî
  • tamdartî
  • tamder
  • tamderî
  • tamderîtî
  • tamdertî
  • tamdêr
  • tamdêrî
  • tamdêrîtî
  • tamdêrtî
  • tamijandin
  • tamijandî
  • tamijiyayî
  • tamijî
  • tamijîn
  • tamijîner
  • tamijok
  • tamî
  • tam jê hatin
  • tamker
  • tam kirin
  • tamkirî

Adverb

tam

  1. precisely, exactly

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *téh₂m, accusative of *séh₂, feminine of *só. Confer with its masculine form Latin tum, as in cum-quam.

Pronunciation

Adverb

tam (not comparable)

  1. so, so much, to such an extent, to such a degree
    Sextus tam iratus erat ut fratrem interficere vellet
    Sextus was so angry that he wished to kill his brother.

Usage notes

Often coupled with quam

  1. Such that "tam x, quam y" = "so x, as y"
    • Spinoza, Ethica Liber V
      Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.
      But all things excellent are as rare as they are difficult

Often 'tips off' a subjunctive clause of result.

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • tam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • tam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus

Latvian

Pronoun

tam

  1. to that; dative singular masculine form of tas

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tam]

Adverb

tam

  1. there (in that place)

Middle English

Pronoun

tam

  1. (chiefly Northern dialect) Alternative form of þem

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tamr

Adjective

tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)

  1. tame, domesticated

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tamr

Adjective

tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)

  1. tame, domesticated

References

Novial

Adverb

tam

  1. as (comparative)

Coordinate terms

See also

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

Adjective

tam

  1. tame

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tam/
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun

tam

  1. there

Further reading

  • tam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Adverb

tam (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of tão

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Adverb

tam (Cyrillic spelling там)

  1. (Kajkavian, regional) there

Synonyms

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtam/

Adverb

tam

  1. there
  2. thither

Synonyms

  • (thither): ta

Antonyms

  • (there): tu
  • (thither): sem

References

  • tam in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtám/
  • Tonal orthography: tȁm

Adverb

tàm

  1. there, in that place

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish tamber, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.

Adjective

tam (comparative tamare, superlative tamast)

  1. tame (not wild), domesticated

Declension

Inflection of tam
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular tam tamare tamast
Neuter singular tamt tamare tamast
Plural tama tamare tamast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 tame tamare tamaste
All tama tamare tamaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Adverb

tam

  1. there

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 三 (“three”).

Pronunciation

Numeral

tam

  1. (cardinal, Sino-Vietnamese) three
  2. (ordinal) third; thirdly

See also

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