tandem
English
Etymology
From Latin tandem (“(of time) at length, at last”). In English, applied humorously (by someone who knew Latin) to two horses harnessed "at length" (i.e., in a single line) instead of side-by-side.
Pronunciation
Noun
tandem (plural tandems)
- A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing the pulling power but only the animal in front able to steer. [late 18th C.]
- (transferred sense) A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front able to steer. [late 19th C.]
- (figurative) A group of two or more people, machines etc. working together; close collaboration.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Assamese: টমটম (tomtom)
- → Bengali: টমটম (ṭomoṭom)
- → Catalan: tàndem
- → Czech: tandem
- → Danish: tandem
- → Dutch: tandem
- → Finnish: tandem
- → French: tandem
- → German: Tandem
- → Greek: τάντεμ (tántem)
- → Hungarian: tandem
- → Italian: tandem
- → Polish: tandem
- → Portuguese: tandem
- → Russian: тандем (tandem)
- → Serbo-Croatian: та̀нде̄м (tàndēm)
- → Spanish: tándem
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Adverb
tandem (not comparable)
- One behind the other.
- to ride tandem on a bicycle-built-for-two
- The horses were harnessed tandem.
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Adjective
tandem (not comparable)
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Czech
Etymology
Via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Tandem, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English tandem,[1] originally from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tandem (“at last”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tandem m (plural tandems, diminutive tandempje n)
- tandem (vehicle, bicycle)
- tandem (arrangement)
- (biology) A phase in the mating ritual of dragonflies.
- A pair, a couple, a duo.
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tandem.
Pronunciation
Noun
tandem m (plural tandems)
- tandem (vehicle, bicycle)
Further reading
- “tandem”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
tandem m (uncountable)
- tandem (all senses)
Latin
Etymology
From tam (“so”) + -dem (“new interpreted particle from īdem”). Compare with its earlier doublet: tamen. Both with original meaning supposedly "so(much)ever".
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtan.dem/, [ˈt̪än̪d̪ɛ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtan.dem/, [ˈt̪än̪d̪em]
Adverb
tandem (not comparable)
Related terms
References
- “tandem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tandem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tandem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Portuguese
Noun
tandem m (plural tandens)
- tandem (bicycle with two seats and two sets of pedals)
Spanish
Noun
tandem m (plural tandems)
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