noun · neuter
tantundem1
tantundem n (indeclinable)
Classical[tanˈtʊn.dẽː]Ecclesiastical[tanˈtun.dem]
Meaning
- indeclinableneuterjust so much, just as much, the same amount or quantity
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
idem, tantum idemtantundem — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 12
tantundem, v. tantusdem.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
tantundem (tantumdem) subst.
neut. of tantus+-dem, just so much, just as much, the same amount : magistratibus tantundem detur in cellam, quantum semper datum est: fossam duxit, ut eius solum tantundem pateret, quantum, etc., Cs.: Dum ex parvo nobis tantundem haurire relinquas, H.—Acc adverb., to the same extent, just so much, just as far : erat vallus in altitudinem pedum decem; tantundem eius valli agger in latitudinem patebat, Cs.: Tantundem omnia sentiens, quam si, etc., Ct.: Non tamen interpres tantundem iuveris, H.—In genit . of price, of just the same value, worth precisely as much : tantidem emptam postulat sibi tradier, T.: voluntatem decurionum tantidem, quanti fidem suam, fecit.
Origins
From tantusdem: the adjective forms are semi-regularly derived, with the -m of the tantum element assimilated to -n by the following initial d- of the -dem element; the noun is a substantivisation of the adjective’s neuter forms, with the prosentential phrase and adverb both deriving from it.