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talent
English
Etymology
From Middle English talent, from Old English talente, borrowed from the plural of Latin talentum (“a Grecian weight; a talent of money”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (tálanton, “balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, sum of money, a talent”). Compare Old High German talenta (“talent”). Later senses from Old French talent (“talent, will, inclination, desire”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tæl?nt/
- (UK, also) IPA(key): /?tal?nt/
- Hyphenation: tal?ent
Noun
talent (plural talents)
- A marked natural ability or skill. [from 15thc.]
- (historical) A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East. [from 9thc.]
- 1611, Authorized Version, Matthew XXV 14-15:
- For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
- 1611, Authorized Version, Matthew XXV 14-15:
- (obsolete) A desire or inclination for something. [14th-16thc.]
- (business, media, sports) People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person. [from 19thc.]
- (slang) The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness. [from 20thc.]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:skill
Derived terms
- talent scout
Translations
Further reading
- talent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- talent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- antlet, latent, latten
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin talentum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (tálanton).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /t??lent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /t??len/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ta?lent/
Noun
talent m (plural talents)
- talent (Greek money)
- talent (skill)
- hunger
- Synonym: gana
Derived terms
- atalentat
- talentós
Further reading
- “talent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin talentum.
Noun
talent m
- talent (unit of weight)
- talent (actual or potential ability)
Synonyms
- (ability): nadání n
Related terms
- talentovaný
Further reading
- talent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- talent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German Talent (“talent”), from Latin talentum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (tálanton, “balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, sum of money, a talent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tal?nt/, [ta?l?n?d?]
Noun
talent n (singular definite talentet, plural indefinite talenter)
- talent (potential or factual ability to perform a skill better than most people)
Inflection
See also
- talent on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 2
From Latin talentum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (tálanton, “balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, sum of money, a talent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tal?nt/, [ta?l?n?d?]
Noun
talent c (singular definite talenten, plural indefinite talenter)
- talent (unit of weight and money)
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch talent, from Old French talent, from Latin talentum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (tálanton, “a particular weight, balance”), from Proto-Indo-European *tl?h?ent-, from *telh?-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta??l?nt/
- Hyphenation: ta?lent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
talent n (plural talenten, diminutive talentje n)
- talent (gift, quality, capability)
- (historical) talent (ancient weight, value of money or coin)
Derived terms
- met zijn talenten woekeren
- natuurtalent
- talentenjacht
- talentvol
Descendants
- Afrikaans: talent
Anagrams
- latten
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin talentum (“a Grecian weight; a talent of money”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (tálanton, “balance; a particular weight, especially of gold; sum of money; a talent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.l??/
Noun
talent m (plural talents)
- (historical, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece) a talent (an obsolete unit of weight or money)
- a talent, a gift, a knack
Derived terms
- talentueux
Further reading
- “talent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- latent
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin talentum.
Noun
talent n (definite singular talentet, indefinite plural talent or talenter, definite plural talenta or talentene)
- (a) talent
Derived terms
- talentfull
References
- “talent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin talentum
Noun
talent n (definite singular talentet, indefinite plural talent, definite plural talenta)
- (a) talent
Derived terms
- talentfull
References
- “talent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- talant
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin talentum (“a Grecian weight; a talent of money”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (tálanton, “balance; a particular weight, especially of gold; sum of money; a talent”).
Noun
talent m (oblique plural talenz or talentz, nominative singular talenz or talentz, nominative plural talent)
- desire; wish (to do something)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin talentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta.l?nt/
Noun
talent m inan
- talent, gift
- (historical) talent (ancient unit of weight and money)
Declension
Noun
talent m pers
- (metonymically) talented person
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
From French talente
Noun
talent n (plural talente)
- talent
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Bosnian, Serbian): tàlenat
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin talentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?lent/
- Hyphenation: ta?lent
Noun
tàlent m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- (Croatia) talent
Declension
Welsh
Alternative forms
- talen (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /?tal?nt/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?ta?l?nt/, /?tal?nt/
Etymology 1
talu +? -ent
Verb
talent
- (literary) third-person plural imperfect/conditional of talu
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin talentum.
Noun
talent m (plural talentau or talenti or talennau)
- ability, aptitude
- talent (“coin”)
Derived terms
- talentog (“talented”)
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “talent”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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sense
English
Alternative forms
- sence (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English sense, borrowed from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”); partly from Latin sensus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from senti? (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn (“reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction”). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s?n(t)s/
- (General American) enPR: s?ns, IPA(key): /s?ns/
- (pen-pin merger) IPA(key): /s?n(t)s/
- Rhymes: -?ns
- Homophones: cents, scents, since (some dialects)
Noun
sense (countable and uncountable, plural senses)
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- a sense of security
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- You don’t make any sense.
- the true sense of words or phrases
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- A keen musical sense
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
- The word set has various senses.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
Synonyms
- nonnonsense
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- common-sense
- good sense
- nonsense
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Afrikaans: sense
Translations
See also
Verb
sense (third-person singular simple present senses, present participle sensing, simple past and past participle sensed)
- To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
- To instinctively be aware.
- She immediately sensed her disdain.
- To comprehend.
Translations
Anagrams
- Essen, NESes, SE SNe, enses, esnes, seens, senes, snees
Afrikaans
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English sense.
Noun
sense (uncountable)
- sense, good sense
Etymology 2
Noun
sense
- plural of sens
Catalan
Alternative forms
- sens
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin sine, possibly conflated with absentia, or more likely from sens, itself from Old Catalan sen (with an adverbial -s-), from Latin sine. Compare French sans, Occitan sens, Italian senza.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?s?n.s?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?s?n.s?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?sen.se/
Preposition
sense
- without
- Antonym: amb
Derived terms
- sensesostre
Further reading
- “sense” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sense” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “sense” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sense” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ?? (sensei).
Noun
sense
- teacher
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sen.se/, [?s???s??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sen.se/, [?s?ns?]
Participle
s?nse
- vocative masculine singular of s?nsus
Occitan
Alternative forms
- sens
- shens (Gascony)
Etymology
From a variant of Latin sine (“without”), influenced by abs?ns (“absent, remote”).
Preposition
sense
- without
References
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 556.
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