tamquam

From tam +‎ quam.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtaŋ.kʷãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪am.kʷam]

tamquam (not comparable)

1. as much as, so as, just as
2. as if, so to speak

   Synonyms: velut, quasi, sīcut, ut

   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 414–416:

     Dēnique, īnspicere tamquam in speculum in vītās omnium iubeō, atque ex aliīs sūmere exemplum sibi.

     In fact, I tell him to look into the lives of all as if into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

• “tamquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tamquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tamquam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the elements and first beginnings: elementa et tamquam semina rerum
    
  • I felt quite at home in his house: apud eum sic fui tamquam domi meae (Fam. 13. 69)