different between talus vs tabus

English

Alternative forms

• tallus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?l?s/
• Rhymes: -e?l?s

Etymology 1

From Latin t?lus

Noun

talus (plural tali)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.

Translations

Synonyms

• anklebone
• astragalus

Derived terms

• taler

See also

• bone

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.
2. (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.

Translations

References

• William Duane, A Military Dictionary, p. 179.
• Talus in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Altus, Aults, Austl., Latus, Tauls, Tulsa, latus, sault

Estonian

Noun

talus

1. inessive singular of talu

French

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Gaulish *talutum, derived from *talos (“peak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ly/

Noun

talus m (plural talus)

1. slope, embankment

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• salut

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *t?kslos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *téh?g-s-los, from *teh?g- (“to touch”) (whence tang?, also possibly Sanskrit ?? (tala, “plane, surface”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta?.lus/, [?t?ä????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.lus/, [?t???lus]

Noun

t?lus m (genitive t?l?); 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.

Synonyms

• (heel): calx, t?l? (Medieval Latin)

Derived terms

• subtel
• t?l?ris
• t?l?rius
• t?l?; t?l?nus (Medieval Latin, from Romance)
• t?xillus

Descendants

• English: talus
• Italian: talo
• ? Italian: talismo

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, 1883–1887)
• talus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• talus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• 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

English

Noun

tabus

1. plural of tabu

Anagrams

• Taubs, abuts, buats, busta, butas, tsuba, tubas

Middle French

Etymology

Perhaps back formed from tabuster. More at Modern French tabac.

Noun

tabus m (plural tabus)

1. hit; strike

Synonyms

• coup

Volapük

Noun

tabus

1. predicative plural of tab