different between tache vs tace

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of moustache or mustache.

Alternative forms

• tash (misspelling)
• 'tache

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???/, Rhymes: -???
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæ?/, Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

tache (plural taches)

1. (informal) Moustache, mustache.

Synonyms

• stache, 'stache

Etymology 2

From French tache (“a spot”). See tetchy.

Noun

tache (plural taches)

1. (now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     the herynge or seynge of any vice or euyl tache

   • 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, p. 95:

     Alone I cared for our mother who did little else but stare at taches on floor and ceiling.

Etymology 3

See tack (“a kind of nail”).

Noun

tache (plural taches)

1. Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.

Anagrams

• Teach, chate, cheat, he-cat, teach, theca

French

Etymology

From Middle French tache, from Old French tache, taiche, taje (“mark, spot, stain”), from Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic ???????????????????????? (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikn? (“sign, mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show”). Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkijan (“to stick, attach”) and Gothic ???????????????????? (staks, “mark”). See attacher. For levelling and shortening of diphthong ai in taikns compare Old French hanter, hangart, etc. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan (“sign, symbol, feature”), Old English t?cn (“sign, marker”). More at token.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/
• Homophone: tâche (France)
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

tache f (plural taches)

1. blot, stain or smear
2. spot; more or less stain-like mark of a different color
3. (skin) blotch, mark
4. moral depravation
5. annoying or despicable person

Derived terms

Related terms

• tacher
• tacheter

Further reading

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French attacher (“attach”).

Verb

tache

1. attach

Old French

Alternative forms

• teche, tesche, taiche, taje

Etymology

Uncertain. Two origins are proposed:

• From Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic ???????????????????????? (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikn? (“sign, mark”).
• From the verb tachier, from Latin tax?re (“to feel, touch”).

Noun

tache f (oblique plural taches, nominative singular tache, nominative plural taches)

1. mark; stain

Descendants

• Middle French: taiche
  • French: tache
• ? Middle English: tach, tache, tasch, tasche, tasshe
  • English: tache, tatch
  • Scots: tache
  • ?? English: tetchy

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tache)

Spanish

Noun

tache m (plural taches)

1. (Mexico) a line or lines written to cross out something

Verb

tache

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tachar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tachar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tachar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tachar.

English

Noun

tace (plural taces)

1. Alternative form of tasse

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

   • 1860 December 22, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch's Book of British Costume, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 39: July—December 1860, page 248,

     The passe-gardes we have mentioned are also clearly visible, and notice should be taken of the horizontal plates, called taces, extending from the breastplate to protect the hips. As we have seen in the last reign, two small pointed plates, called tuilles, are affixed by straps in the front to the lowest of the taces, so as to give a further protection to the thigh; and under them is visible a short tunic of mail, which, we thus learn, still continued in military use.

Anagrams

• CETA, Cate, acet-, cate

Italian

Verb

tace

1. third-person singular present of tacere

Anagrams

• teca

Latin

Verb

tac?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tace?

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

tace

1. inflection of taca (“skin”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.t?s?/

Noun

tace f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of taca

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tat??e]

Verb

tace

1. third-person singular present indicative of t?cea