tache

See also taché, tâche, and tâché

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of moustache.

Alternative forms

• tash
• 'tache

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

tache (plural taches)

1. moustache

Etymology 2

French tache spot. See tetchy.

Noun

tache (plural taches)

1. (obsolete) A spot, stain, or blemish.

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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.

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Anagrams

• cheat, teach, Teach, theca

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French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French tache, taiche, taje (“mark, spot, stain”), from Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikniz (“sign, mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *deik'e-, *deig'- (“to show”). Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkjan (“to stick, attach”) and Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐍃 (staks, “mark”). See attacher. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan (“sign, symbol, feature”), Old English tācn (“sign, marker”). More at token.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taʃ/, X-SAMPA: /taS/

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• Homophone: tâche (France)
• Rhymes: -aʃ

Noun

tache f (plural taches)

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

Derived terms

• tache de naissance
• tache de rousseur
• tache solaire
• faire tache
• être tache
• taché

Related terms

• tacher
• tacheter

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French attacher (“attach”).

Verb

tache

1. attach

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Old French

Noun

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

1. mark; stain

Descendants

• French: tache

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Spanish

Verb

tache (infinitive tachar)

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.