tametsi Latin · revision 30878

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la tam, la etsī}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Ecclesiastical: [taˈmɛt.si]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tametsī''' ^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also written separately, ''tam etsī''.^(OLD 2012)

+ The full form ''tamen etsī'' occurs in Plautus, Ennius and Pacuvius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD derives it from [[m|la|tam|t=so]] and [[m|la|etsī|t=even if]].^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short take it as contracted from [[m|la|tamen|t=yet]] and ⟨etsī⟩, which is often written in full, as ⟨tamenetsī⟩ in Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler names ⟨tam⟩, ⟨tamen⟩, [[m|la|et|t=and, even]] and [[m|la|sī|t=if]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Amphitruo'': ''audīs quae dīcō, tametsī praesēns nōn adēs'', “you hear what I say, even though you are not here”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It introduces a concessive clause, “even though, although”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Without a following main clause it is “and yet, all the same”, as Cicero asks: and yet, what examples are these?^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “although, notwithstanding that, even if, and yet”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus in the sense “even though”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in the sense “and yet”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # Even though, [[m|en|although]]; even if.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(without a main clause)'' And yet, all the same, [[m|en|nevertheless]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tamen]]

+ * [[etsī]]

+ * [[tam]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}