tanquam

tanquam is a Latin form of tamquam, meaning “as, just as; as if, as though”. It is the adverb or conjunction.

Found 182 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.69: … a fungi officio in recte factis est, quae sunt orta a virtutibus. quae quidem sapientes sequuntur duce natura tanquam videntes; non perfecti autem homines et tamen ingeniis excellentibus praediti excitantur saepe gloria, quae h …

Petronius, Satyricon 52: … to” inquit “te ipsum caede, quia nugax es.” Statim puer demisso labro orare. At ille “Quid me” inquit “rogas? Tanquam ego tibi molestus sim. Suadeo, a te impetres, ne sis nugax.” Tandem ergo exoratus a nobis missionem dedit pue …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.