different between taille vs taillie

English

Etymology

From French taille (“cut”, noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: tie, Ty

Noun

taille (countable and uncountable, plural tailles)

1. (historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 143:

     The main royal tax was the taille, a tax on landed wealth, distributed among the généralités and assessed and levied in a variety of ways, and it was supplemented by a range of other direct taxes [...].

2. (obsolete) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.

   • Whether that he payde or toke by tayle.

3. (music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part.
4. (music, obsolete) The part for the tenor viol or viola.

Related terms

• tallage (“a tax”)

Anagrams

• tallie

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French taille, from Latin talea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.j?/
• Hyphenation: tail?le

Noun

taille f (plural tailles, diminutive tailletje n)

1. waistline

Derived terms

• wespentaille

French

Etymology

From Old French taille, from Latin talea (“a cutting”). Compare Italian taglia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taj/

Noun

taille f (plural tailles)

1. the act of cutting, pruning, trimming

   Synonym: coupe

2. size

   Synonyms: grandeur, gabarit

3. waist
4. waistline
5. a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage

Derived terms

Related terms

• tailler

Descendants

• ? Danish: talje

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

taille

1. Alternative form of tayl

Old French

Etymology

From Latin t?lea (“a cutting”).

Noun

taille f (oblique plural tailles, nominative singular taille, nominative plural tailles)

1. cut (act; instance of cutting)
2. cut; wound; incision (result of being cut)
3. cut (of clothing)
4. a count kept by carving notches into a stick
5. (by extension) a count; a tally
6. charge; levy; taxation; tax

Descendants

• French: taille
  • ? English: taille
• ? English: tally
• ? Irish: táille

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (taille, supplement)
• taille on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Noun

taillie (plural taillies)

1. Alternative form of tailzie

Anagrams

• liliate