talus

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See also: Talus, tálus, and tālus

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɪləs/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪləs

Etymology 1

From Latin tālus.

Noun

talus (plural tali)

  1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.
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anklebone — see anklebone
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Etymology 2

From French talus.

Noun

talus (plural taluses)

  1. (geology) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
    • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
      By the time he reached the first talus slides under the tall escarpments of the Pilares the dawn was not far to come.
  2. (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.
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Estonian

Noun

talus

  1. inessive singular of talu

French

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Gaulish *talutum (“slope”), derived from *talu (“front”), from Proto-Celtic *talu (“front”). Compare Latin talutium (“slope containing gold deposits”).

Pronunciation

Noun

talus m (plural talus)

  1. slope, embankment

Descendants

  • Catalan: talús
  • English: talus
  • Galician: talude
  • Portuguese: talude
  • Spanish: talud

References

  1. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “talu-, talamon-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 288

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tākslos, with multiple theories proposed:

Pronunciation

Noun

tālus m (genitive tālī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone
  2. an oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides
  3. (figuratively) the heel

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tālus tālī
Genitive tālī tālōrum
Dative tālō tālīs
Accusative tālum tālōs
Ablative tālō tālīs
Vocative tāle tālī

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References

  • “talus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “talus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • talus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • talus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the conversation began in this way: sermo inductus a tali exordio
  • “talus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “talus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “talus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 605-6
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