tandem

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: 1 'a bicycle or tricycle with two or more seats one behind another', 2 'a group of two persons or machines etc. with one behind or following the other', 3 'a carriage driven tandem', 4 'a duo, two people/partners'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian tandem beg20c 1, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; 3, status: restricted use; 4, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (euphemistic) dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch tandem [tandəm] end19c 1; 1970s: 3 + 4, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French tandem end19c 1 + 3, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; 4, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English: colloquial dito ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German tandem [tandem] end19c 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Hungarian tandem [tandem] end19c/beg20c 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (obsolete); 3, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (archaic); dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian tandem [tandem] end19c 1, 2 + 4, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian tandem [tandem] beg20c 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Polish tandem [tandem] beg20c 1, 2 + 4, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish tandem [tandem] end19c 1, 2 + 4, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English dito ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...
  • Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.
  • Information on Other Languages: Romanian: tandem [tandem], end19c, via French, meaning: 1, 2 + 4, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Russian: tandem, beg20c, meaning: 1 +4, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Bulgarian: tandem, beg20c: 1, the same as in English, status: restricted use: archaic; mid20c: 4, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Albanian: tandem, 20c, 1 + 3, status: restricted use: regional;,