Etymograph

English

randem

Blend of random + tandem.

A blend of random + tandem

Old French randir ‘to run, gallop’

Old French randon ‘rapidity’

Middle English randoun ‘force, haste’

English randon

English random

Proto-Indo-European *só ‘this’

Proto-Italic *sei ‘thus, so’

Latin tam ‘so’

Latin tandem ‘of time: at last, at length, finally’

English tandem

Today it means

adj Involving three horses harnessed one behind the other.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “randem”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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