different between tame vs teme

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?m, IPA^(key): /te?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m
• Homophone: Thame

Etymology 1

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 *demh?- (“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”), 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 *tamjan? (“to tame”).

Adjective

tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)

1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.

   Antonym: wild

2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.

   Synonym: gentle

3. (figuratively) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
4. Not exciting.

   Synonyms: dull, flat, insipid, unexciting

   Antonym: exciting
5. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
   • a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Paraphrase on the 148th Psalm

     tame slaves of the laborious plough

6. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

   Antonym: wild

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tame.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

1. (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.

2. (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
   • 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)

     Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.

3. (transitive) To make gentle or meek.

   to tame a rebellion

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• tame on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English tamen (“to cut into, broach”). Compare French entamer.

Verb

tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     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.

Anagrams

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meat, meta, meta-, team

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *?ëm?.

Noun

ta?e

1. glue

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Japanese

Romanization

tame

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English tam, tom, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“tame”).

Adjective

tame

1. (of animals) tame, domesticated
2. (of plants) cultivated, domesticated
3. overcome, subdued
4. (of people) meek, compliant
5. (anatomy, medicine, of a fistula) inner, interior

Alternative forms

• tam; tom, tome (early Southwest and Southwest Midlands)

Descendants

• English: tame
• Scots: tame

References

• “t?me, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

tame (third-person singular simple present tameth, present participle tamynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tamed)

1. Alternative form of tamen (“to cut, carve”)

Etymology 3

Noun

tame (uncountable)

1. (Northern) Alternative form of tome (“freetime”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

tame

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tam
2. (non-standard since 2012) plural of tam

Swedish

Adjective

tame

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of tam.

Anagrams

• meta, team, tema

English

Etymology

Blend of technological +? meme; introduced by Susan Blackmore in 2008.

Noun

teme (plural temes)

1. A meme which lives in a technological artifact rather than the human mind.

Anagrams

• etem, meet, mete, teem

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

teme

1. Obsolete spelling of temeh

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin tim?re, present active infinitive of time?.

Verb

teme

1. fear

Dutch

Verb

teme

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of temen

Italian

Pronunciation

• téme or tème
• IPA^(key): /?teme/ or IPA^(key): /?t?me/

Verb

teme

1. third-person singular indicative present of temere

Anagrams

• mete

Japanese

Romanization

teme

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English t?am, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.

Alternative forms

• tem, team, them, theam, tæm, teome, teem, teeme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??m/

Noun

teme (plural temes)

2. kinfolk, clan, people
3. (law) The privilege of making decisions about ownership disputes between a person's subordinates.
4. A group of livestock used to pull an agricultural instrument
5. A group of waterfowl or chickens.
6. descendants, children; also extended to the following:
   1. (law) The descendants of one's subordinates.
7. (rare) The ability to procreate or give birth.
8. (rare) team, company, band.

Related terms

• barntem

Descendants

• English: team
• Scots: team

References

• “t?m(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 2

From Old French teme, tesme, from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek ???? (théma).

Alternative forms

• tyme, theme, teeme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??m(?)/

Noun

teme (plural temes)

2. topic, focus, matter
3. document, text

Descendants

• English: theme
• Scots: theme (obsolete)

References

• “t?me, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 3

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to give birth, to support”)

Etymology 4

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to drain, to empty”)

Etymology 5

Verb

teme

1. Alternative form of temen (“to tame”)

Etymology 6

Noun

teme

1. (Northern ME) Alternative form of tyme (“time”)

Portuguese

Verb

teme

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of temer
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of temer

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tim?re, present active infinitive of time?, through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *t?m?re.

Verb

a teme (third-person singular present teme, past participle temut) 3rd conj.

1. (reflexive) to fear

Conjugation

Derived terms

• temere

Related terms

• team?
• team?t
• temoare

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): tj?me

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?m?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tême/
• Hyphenation: te?me

Noun

t?me n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. top, crown (of the head)
2. top, apex

Declension

Spanish

Verb

teme

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of temer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of temer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of temer.

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Noun

teme

1. plural of tietetu

Wauja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.m?/

Noun

teme

1. tapir, Tapirus terrestris

References

• E. Ireland field notes, confirmed with Piitsa, Muri, and other elders (all experienced hunters) in 1982 using José Cândido de Melo Carvalho's Atlas da Fauna Brasileira, Edições Melhoramentos, São Paulo, 1981.