tame

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Accustomed to human contact.
2. Docile or tranquil towards humans.
3. (figuratively) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
4. (obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
5. Not exciting.
6. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
7. Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
2. (transitive) To make submissive or docile.
3. (transitive) To take control of something that is unruly.
4. (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
5. (transitive) To make gentle or meek.

Verb

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Concepts

apprivoiser

dompter

domestiquer

apprivoisé

dresser

domestique

mater

insipide

docile

cultiver

domestiqué

soumis

adomestiqué

qui aime son intérieur

adomestiquée

adomestiquèrent

adomestiqua

adomestiquâmes

contenir

fade

humble

maîtriser

peureux

😨

reprendre

s’apprivoiser

trouillard

🐔

adomestiquai

adomestiquées

adomestiqués

Opposé de

exciting, wild

Synonymes

domesticate

docile

domesticated

subdue

domestic

train

🚋

gentle

cultivate

reclaim

mild

subjugate

meek

tender

tone down

quiet

civilize

obedient

calm

domesticise

domesticize

quell

break in

educate

moderate

refine

humble

humanize

win over

tamed

control

conquer

overcome

break

insipid

trained

discipline

dilute

timid

submissive

accustomed to

suppress

pusillanimous

naturalized

pet

boring

naturalise

chasten

master

naturalize

bring into subjection

Traductions

zähmen

domare

domar

addomesticare

zahm

manso

domesticar

addomesticato

tam

temmen

amansar

ammansire

domesticado

domar

mak

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/teɪm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: tame

Appartenant à moyen anglais: tam

Hérité de ancien anglais: tam

Appartenant à écossais: tam

Appartenant à saterlandais: tom

Appartenant à frison occidental: tam

Appartenant à néerlandais: tam

Appartenant à bas-allemand: tamm

Appartenant à allemand: zahm

Appartenant à danois: tam

Appartenant à suédois: tam

Appartenant à islandais: tamur

Hérité de moyen anglais: tamen

Hérité de ancien anglais: temian

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”).