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動詞

tamen (third-person singular simple present tameth, present participle tamende, tamynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tamed)

1. to tame, domesticate
2. to subdue, overcome

派生した語

• English: tame
• Scots: tame

参照

• “tāmen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

Shortening of attamen (“to cut, pierce”) or entamen (“to injure”), both from Old French.

動詞

tamen (third-person singular simple present tameth, present participle tamende, tamynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tamed)

1. to cut into, carve
2. to broach (a keg, bottle; a subject)

別の表記

• tame

派生した語

• English: tame
• Scots: tame

参照

• “tāmen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈta.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈtaː.men]
• Note: unlike in tametsī, the graphic m does represent the bilabial nasal /m/.

副詞

tamen (not comparable)

1. (usually postpositive, also initial and final) however, in spite of this
   1. (preceded by et, atque/ac, neque/nec, at, sed, vērum)

      ac tamen... ― and yet...

      • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Atticus 13:

        ex duobus librīs contulī in quattuor: grandiōrēs sunt omnīnō quam erant illī, sed tamen multa dētracta

        from two books have I arranged four: they are ampler, in every way, than what used to be in that one [the previous arrangement], and yet many [were] withdrawn

2. (expressing a concession) nevertheless, yet, still, even
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 864:

     Simo: Nihil audiō! Ego iam tē commōtum reddam!
     Davus: Tamen etsī hoc vērum·st?
     Simo: Tamen!

     Simo: I'm not listening! Your heart strings are about to get a real good tugging!
     [literally, “I'm about to make you greatly moved!”]
     Davus: Even if it's true?
     Simo: Even so!

3. all the same, just the same (in spite of appearances of the contrary)
   • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 405:

     […] vīginti minās, quae nūsquam nunc sunt gentium, inveniam tamen.

     […] those twenty mines, which are currently nowhere to be found, I'll find them all the same.

4. (in an aside) although, even if
5. (in a limiting clause) (also with ut or ne) at least

同意語

• (nevertheless, yet): etsi, quamquam, at, sed, ast

派生語

• tamendem
• attamen
• tamen etsī
• vērumtamen

関連する語

派生した語

• Sardinian: tàmen, tàmes
• → Esperanto: tamen
• → Ido: tamen
• → Interlingua: tamen
• Italian: tame

参照

• “tamen” on page 2098 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page ???

Further reading

• “tamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.