different between asse vs tasse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1

Noun

asse (plural asses)

1. Obsolete spelling of ass

Etymology 2

Noun

asse (plural asses)

1. (obsolete) A small fox-like animal (Vulpes chama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.

Anagrams

• ESAs, Essa, SAEs, SASE, SSAE, Seas, ases, seas

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• assu, essen, ässe, ässä

Etymology

From Old High German ezzan, from Proto-Germanic *etan?. Cognate with German essen, Dutch eten, English eat, Swedish äta.

Verb

asse

1. (Carcoforo) to eat

References

• “asse” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

French

Pronunciation

Noun

asse m (plural asses)

1. A type of pickaxe used in tunneling

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin axis, axem, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?s- (“axis”).

Noun

asse f (plural assi)

1. board (of wood)

   Synonyms: pancone, tavola

2. beam (gymnastic)

Etymology 2

From Latin assis, variant of axis.

Noun

asse m (plural assi)

1. axle
2. (mathematics, physics) axis
3. (anatomy) axis (vertebra)

   Synonym: epistrofeo

Derived terms

• assiale

Etymology 3

From Latin as.

Noun

asse f (plural assi)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) as (any of several coins of Rome)

Anagrams

• essa

Latin

Noun

asse

1. ablative singular of as

Lule Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ës?.

Noun

asse

1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English assa.

Alternative forms

• as

Noun

asse (plural assen or asses)

1. ass, donkey

Descendants

• English: ass
• Yola: ess

References

• “asse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

asse

1. Alternative form of axen (“to ask”)

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• assa

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ad-s?do-syos.

Adjective

asse (comparative asu)

1. easy

Declension

Derived terms

• anse

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 assa(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

References

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

asse

1. locative singular of assa
2. accusative plural of assa

Pite Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ës?.

Noun

asse

1. inner/meat-side of a skin

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Verb

asse

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of assar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of assar
3. third-person singular imperative of assar

English

Alternative forms

• tace
• tasset

Etymology

From Middle English tasse, tache, from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), from Frankish *taska (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *task?, cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch; bag”).

Noun

tasse (plural tasses)

1. A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:

     This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers.

Anagrams

• ASSET, SEATs, SESTA, Seats, TASes, TESSA, Tessa, asset, easts, sates, satés, seats, setas, tases

French

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (??s) (a shortening of ?????? (?ast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *t???šti, from Proto-Indo-European *t?t?-ti ~ *tét?-n?ti, from *tet?- (“to create”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s/

Noun

tasse f (plural tasses)

1. cup
2. cupful

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Luxembourgish: Taass
• ? Vietnamese: tách

See also

• verre

Further reading

• “tasse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• stase

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

tasse f

1. plural of tassa

Anagrams

• asset, sesta, stesa, tessa

Swedish

Etymology

A noa-name, a euphemistic replacement of the word ulv or varg (which is in itself originally a noa-word).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tas?/
• Rhymes: -²as?

Noun

tasse c

1. (dialectal, euphemistic) wolf

Declension

Synonyms

• gråben
• ulv
• varg

Derived terms

• tassemark

References

• tasse in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• asets, asset, etsas