tame

Meaning

1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
2. Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
3. 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.

domesticate

docile

accustomed to

bring into subjection

get to like

used to people

domestacated

get control of

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/teɪm/

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”).