tâche

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See also: tache, 'tache, taché, tâché, Tache, Taché, and Tâche

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tasche, from Early Medieval Latin tasca, variant of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to handle, appraise”), from tangō (“to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, cognate with Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō, “to organise, arrange”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tâche f (plural tâches)

  1. task
    • 1873, Jules Verne, Le Pays des fourrures:
      Oui, madame, mais Jasper Hobson n’a jamais reculé devant une tâche à accomplir, si rude qu’elle pût être.
      Yes, ma'am, but Jasper Hobson never shrank from a task that he had to do, no matter how rough it might be.
    • 2011, Louis-Guillaume Morand, Thomas Garcia, Windows 7 avancé, 2 edition, Éditions Eyrolles, page 327:
      On dit bien souvent que les bons développeurs sont feignants. En effet, ils cherchent systématiquement à réaliser toute tâche en déployant le moins d’effort possible.
      It is often said that good developers are lazy. In effect, they systematically try to realize every task with the least effort possible.
  2. assignment

Derived terms

Verb

tâche

  1. inflection of tâcher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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