talus
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From Latin.
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talus (plural tali)
- (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.
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talus (plural taluses)
- A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
- 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing,
- By the time he reached the first talus slides under the tall escarpments of the Pilares the dawn was not far to come.
- 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing,
- (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.
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- William Duane, A Military Dictionary, p. 179.
Talus in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Unknown origin.
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talus m
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tālus (genitive tālī); m, second declension
- The ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone.
- An oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides.
- (figuratively) The heel.
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| Number | Singular | Plural |
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| nominative | tālus | tālī |
| genitive | tālī | tālōrum |
| dative | tālō | tālīs |
| accusative | tālum | tālōs |
| ablative | tālō | tālīs |
| vocative | tāle | tālī |
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- (heel): calx