different between tango vs flamenco

English

Etymology

Argentine-Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?tæ????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?tæ??o?/

Rhymes: -æ????

Noun

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

1. A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
2. A piece of music suited to such a dance.
3. The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
4. (slang) enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
5. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

Translations

Verb

tango (third-person singular simple present tangoes, present participle tangoing, simple past and past participle tangoed)

1. To dance the tango.
2. (slang, intransitive) To mingle or interact (with each other).
   • 2013, Kathy Casey, D'Lish Deviled Eggs (page 67)

     Creamy cheese, tangy-sweet peppers, and a hit of heat tango in this sexy deviled-egg combo.

See also

• it takes two to tango

Anagrams

• Atong, Tonga, on tag, tag on, tonga

Bikol Central

Verb

tangò

1. To nod.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?ngo

Noun

tango

1. A tooth with a single cusp; a cuspid; a canine.
2. A fang; a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or injecting venom.
3. A tusk; one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as a walrus, elephant or wild boar.

Verb

tango

1. To nod.

Czech

Noun

tango n

1. tango (Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango)

Danish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tan?o/, [?t?????o]

Noun

tango c (singular definite tangoen, plural indefinite tangoer)

1. tango

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??.?o?/
• Hyphenation: tan?go

Noun

tango m (plural tango's)

1. tango (Argentine-Uruguayan dance and musical style)

Finnish

Etymology

From Argentine-Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???o/, [?t????o?]
• Rhymes: -???o
• Syllabification: tan?go

Noun

tango

1. tango

Declension

Anagrams

• Tonga, togan, tonga

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.?o/

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

1. tango (dance)
2. tango (music)

Derived terms

• tango argentin

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tan.?o/
• Rhymes: -an?o

Etymology 1

From Spanish tango.

Noun

tango m (plural tanghi)

1. tango

Etymology 2

Verb

tango

1. first-person singular present indicative of tangere

Anagrams

• Tonga

Further reading

• tango in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

Romanization

tango

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tang?, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *teh?g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (táss?), ??????? (tetag?n), Old English þaccian (“to touch, pat”). More at thack, thwack.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tan.?o?/, [?t?ä??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tan.?o/, [?t?????]

Verb

tang? (present infinitive tangere, perfect active tetig?, supine t?ctum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) I touch, grasp.

   N?l? m? tangere.

   Don't touch me.

2. (transitive) I reach, arrive at.
3. (transitive) I attain to.
4. (transitive) I move, affect.
5. (transitive) I come home to.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• atting?
• conting?
• obting?
• perting?

Related terms

• cont?min?
• integer
• rem ac? tetigist?, ac? tetigist?
• t?ctilis
• tangibilis
• tax?

Descendants

References

• tango in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tango in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tango in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tan.??/

Noun

tango n

1. tango (ballroom dance)

Declension

Further reading

• tango in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tango in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t??.?u/
• Hyphenation: tan?go

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

1. tango (ballroom dance)
2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

Verb

tango

1. first-person singular present indicative of tangar

Sambali

Noun

tangô

1. nod

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tân?o/
• Hyphenation: tan?go

Noun

t?ngo m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. tango (dance)

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta???/

Noun

tango n (genitive singular tanga, nominative plural tangá, genitive plural táng, declension pattern of mesto)

1. (dance) tango

Declension

Derived terms

• tangový

Further reading

• tango in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from a Niger-Congo language, but an onomatopoeic origin for the dance has been suggested as well.

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

1. tango (ballroom dance)
2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

Derived terms

• tanguito

Anagrams

• Tonga

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tango (ma class, plural matango)

1. cucumber

Swedish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta???/
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

tango c

1. (dance) tango

Declension

References

• tango in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

• antog

Tagalog

Noun

tangô

1. nod

Waray-Waray

Noun

tangó

1. canine tooth
2. tusk of animals

English

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Vlaming).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fl??m??k??/

Noun

flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

Derived terms

• flamenco guitar

Translations

See also

• fandango

Verb

flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?me?k?o/, [?fl?me??k?o?]
• IPA^(key): /?fl?me?ko/, [?fl?me??ko?]

Noun

flamenco

1. flamenco

Declension

French

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (music, dance)

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Dutch Vlaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?m?n.k?/

Noun

flamenco n (indeclinable)

1. flamenco (genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)
2. flamenco (song or a dance in such a style)

Further reading

• flamenco in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• flamenco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From Dutch Vlaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?menko/, [fla?m??.ko]

Adjective

flamenco (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish
2. (relational) flamenco
3. (colloquial) insolent, cheeky

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos, feminine flamenca, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Fleming, a Flemish person

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco (music)
3. flamenco (dance)

Derived terms

Noun

flamenco m (uncountable)

1. Flemish, the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium
2. Flemish, a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium

Related terms

• Flandes

See also

• bailaor, bailaora

Further reading

• “flamenco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.