tame
Significat (English)
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- Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
- Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
- Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- (obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
- Not exciting.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Synonyms
accustomed to
bring into subjection
get to like
used to people
domestacated
get control of
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/teɪm/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”). 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”), Danish tam (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”). The verb is from Middle English tamen, temen, temien, from Old English temian (“to tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tammjan, from Proto-Germanic *tamjaną (“to tame”).
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