tamen

Borrowed from Latin tamen.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtamen]
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• Rhymes: -amen
• Hyphenation: ta‧men

tamen

1. however, nevertheless

   Mi devis rezigni miajn dezirojn kaj celojn, sed nun mi tamen estas kontenta.

   I had to resign my aspirations and objectives, but now I am nevertheless content.

From Esperanto, from Latin tamen.

tamen

1. however, nevertheless

tamen

1. Rōmaji transcription of ためん

From tam +‎ -em. Last particle in īdem. Compare with its later doublet: tandem, both with original meaning supposedly "so(much)ever".

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.men/, [ˈt̪ämɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.men/, [ˈt̪äːmen]
• Note: unlike in tametsī, the graphic m does represent the bilabial nasal /m/.

tamen

1. (usually postpositive, also initial and final) however, in spite of this
   1. (preceded by et, atque/ac, neque/nec, at, sed, vērum)

      ac tamen... ― and yet...

2. (expressing a concession) nevertheless, yet, still

   166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 864:

   SIMO Nihil audiō! Ego iam tē commōtum reddam! DAVUS Tamen etsī hoc vērum·st? SIMO Tamen!

   SI I'm not listening! Your heart strings are about to get a real good tugging! DA Even if it's true? SI Even so!

   (literally, “...I'm about to make you greatly moved...”)

3. all the same, just the same (in spite of appearances of the contrary)

   c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 405:

   […] vīginti minās, quae nūsquam nunc sunt gentium, inveniam tamen.

   […] those twenty minas, which are currently nowhere to be found, I'll find them all the same.

4. (in an aside) although, even if
5. (in a limiting clause) (also with ut or ne) at least

• (nevertheless, yet): etsi, quamquam, at, sed, ast

• tamendem
• attamen
• tamen etsī
• vērumtamen

• Sardinian: tàmen, tàmes
• → Esperanto: tamen
• → Ido: tamen
• → Interlingua: tamen
• → Novial: tamen

• “tamen” on page 2098 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page ???

• “tamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

From tame (“tame”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

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

1. to tame, domesticate
2. to subdue, overcome

• English: tame
• Scots: tame

• “tāmen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Shortening of attamen (“to cut, pierce”) or entamen (“to injure”), both from Old French.

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

1. to cut into, carve
2. to broach (a keg, bottle; a subject)

• tame

• English: tame
• Scots: tame

• “tāmen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

tamen

1. woman

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)