tác

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See also: tac, TAC, tâc, tắc, and taç

Czech

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aːts

Noun

tác m inan

  1. platter, tray
    Synonym: podnos
  2. (informal) a thousand crowns (thousand units of Czech currency)
    Synonyms: tisíc, litr, talíř

Declension

Declension of tác (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative tác tácy
genitive tácu táců
dative tácu tácům
accusative tác tácy
vocative táce tácy
locative táce, tácu tácech
instrumental tácem tácy

Related terms

Further reading

  • tác in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • tác in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • tác in Internetová jazyková příručka

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Noun

tác • (索, 作)

  1. (obsolete) age
    bạn tác ― friend(s) of or around the same age
    • 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “寶鏡警戒 Bảo kính cảnh giới 53”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):
      伴索易唯它沛召
      Bạn tác dể duôi đà phải chịu
      My friends my age scorn me, I've already had to accept that.
    • Lạc An cư sĩ (樂安居士 "Jolly and Tranquil Hermit"), 芻蕘對話 Sô Nghiêu đối thoại ( "Dialogue between the Grassmower and Firewood-Gatherer"); 1870 version, 3a
      意羅計侶索𨕭
      窒潙墨󱎾買𢧚蹺隊
      Ấy là kể lứa tác trên,
      Rất vời mực thước mới nên theo đòi.
      That means: even among the older age groups
      One should emulate only the very exemplary.
    • 19th century, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Tale of Lục Vân Tiên, 1916 Nôm version, lines 443-444
      户裴𠸜儉索澄堆𨑮
      Họ Bùi tên Kiệm tác chừng đôi mươi.
      He is surnamed Bùi, named Kiệm, aged about twenty.
Usage notes

It survives only in the compound tuổi tác and is now displaced by tuổi, which is ultimately from Old Chinese 歲 (OC *s-qʷʰat-s) (Baxter & Sagart, 2014).

Etymology 2

Romanization

tác

  1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 作

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