phalange

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French phalange.

Pronunciation

Noun

phalange (plural phalanges)

  1. (obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.).
  2. (anatomy) A phalanx ("one of the bones of the finger or toe").
  3. (zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
  4. (botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
  5. A phalanstery.
    • 1910, Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovskiĭ, Modern Socialism in Its Historical Development, page 164:
      The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]

Derived terms

Translations

phalanx — see phalanx

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French

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Etymology

Borrowed from either Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx) or Latin phalangem. Doublet of palanque and palanche. See also the related planche.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa.lɑ̃ʒ/
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Noun

phalange f (plural phalanges)

  1. (anatomy) phalanx
  2. (historical) phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.)

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Latin

Noun

phalange

  1. ablative singular of phalanx

Portuguese

Noun

phalange f (plural phalanges)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of falange.
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