tac

• IPA^(key): /tæk/

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• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophones: tach, tack

tac (uncountable)

1. (Geordie, slang) The drug cannabis.

• cat, Cat, act., Act., CAT, ATC, Act, act, A.C.T., A. C. T., CTA, cat-, ACT, TCA

• tacu

From Latin taceō. Compare Romanian tăcea, tac.

tac first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative tatsi or tatse, past participle tãcutã)

1. to be silent, keep quiet

• tãtseari / tãtseare
• tãcut

From Arabic تَاج (tāj), ultimately of Iranian origin.

• IPA^(key): ,

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tac (definite accusative tacı, plural taclar)

1. crown

• taxt-tac

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• tàc (Modenese)
• tâc (Bolognese, Reggiano, Carpigiano)

tac m (plural tac) (Mirandola)

1. the back of a shoe
2. heel of a shoe

• arbòt (Bolognese)

• IPA^(key): /tak/

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• Rhymes: -ak

Onomatopoeic

tac

1. tick, tock
   • 1968, Serge Gainsbourg (lyrics and music), “Bonnie and Clyde”, in Initials B.B., performed by Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot:

     Dans les trois jours, voilà le tac, tac, tac / Des mitraillettes qui reviennent à l’attaque

     Within three days, there's the rat-a-tat-tat / Of machine guns back on the attack

2. Onomatopoeia (but not an interjection) which is used to express the accomplishment of what we are doing. Tac, c'est fait.

• du tac au tac
• avoir le tac
• tac-tac
• tactactac
• tic-tac
• tacot

Inherited from Middle French tac.

tac m (uncountable)

1. mange

• “tac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• IPA^(key): /tak/

tac f (plural tacs)

1. badger

From Latin taceō.^[1] Compare Romanian tăcea, tac.

tac

1. I am silent, keep quiet.

• tățiri, tățeari / tățęri

• tag, dach

Inherited from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ and Old Norse dagr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). ^[1]

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈtak/

tac m

1. day
2. age, lifetime
3. (politics) convention, congress
4. (in a religious context) judgement day

• Alemannic German: Tag

  Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

  Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

  Swabian: Dag

• Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

  Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

  Mòcheno: ta

  Udinese: tach, ti

• Central Franconian: Daach

  Hunsrik: Daagh, taach (Wiesemann spelling system), Tóch, Tooch (Altenhofen spelling)

• East Central German:

  Upper Saxon German: Dag

• German: Tag

  Esperanto: tago

• Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
• Rhine Franconian: Tach

  Pennsylvania German: Daag

• Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
• Vilamovian: taog
• Yiddish: טאָג (tog)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “tac”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

• IPA^(key): /tak/

tac m

1. Alternative form of tag

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

• IPA^(key): /ˈtat͡s/
• Rhymes: -at͡s
• Syllabification: tac

tac f

1. genitive plural of taca

Borrowed from Greek τάκος (tákos).

tac n (plural tacuri)

1. (billiards) cue

tac

1. inflection of tăcea:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

• IPA^(key): /ˈtak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: tac

tac m (plural tacs)

1. CAT
2. knock; clack; tock (sound)

• “tac”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10