tame
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Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to build; home”). Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam (“tame”), Low German Low German tamm, tahm (“tame”), German zahm (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”).
Adjective[edit]
tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)
- Not or no longer wild; domesticated
- (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
- Not exciting
- Synonyms: dull, insipid
- Antonyms: exciting
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This party is too tame for me.
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For a thriller, that film was really tame.
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2015 February 15, John Oliver, “Tobacco”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 2, HBO:
- Wow! So the implication there is that even 12-year-olds in France will find the movie tame. “Yes, eet was a, an amusing erotic trifle, I supposa. Ze love-making was passable, but, uh, belt play is a leettle pedestriahn, don’t you seenk?”.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless
- Roscommon
- tame slaves of the laborious plough
- Roscommon
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:tame.
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Verb[edit]
tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)
- (transitive) to make something tame
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He tamed the wild horse.
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- (intransitive) to become tame
- 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)
- Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.
- 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)
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Further reading[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Compare French entamer (“to cut into, to broach”).
Verb[edit]
tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
- Fuller
- In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
- Fuller
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Inari Sami[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Samic *δëmē.
Noun[edit]
taṃe
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of tame | ||
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singular | plural | |
Nominative | tame | tameh |
Accusative | tame | toomijd |
Genitive | tame | tomij toomij |
Illative | taman | toomijd |
Locative | taameest | toomijn |
Comitative | toomijn | tomijguin |
Abessive | tamettáá | tomijttáá |
Essive | tammeen | — |
Partitive | tammeed | — |
Further reading[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
tame
Swedish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tame
- absolute definite natural masculine form of tam.
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