tache
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of moustache or mustache.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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Noun
tache (plural taches)
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From French tache (“a spot”). See tetchy.
Noun
tache (plural taches)
- (now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.
- 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, p. 95:
- Alone I cared for our mother who did little else but stare at taches on floor and ceiling.
- 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, p. 95:
Etymology 3
See tack (“a kind of nail”).
Noun
tache (plural taches)
- Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
- 1611, King James Bible, “xxvi.vi”, in Exodus[1], Barker edition:
- And thou shalt make fiftie taches of gold, and couple the curtaines together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Middle French tache, from Old French tache, taiche, taje (“mark, spot, stain”), from Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikną (“sign, mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”). Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkijan (“to stick, attach”) and Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐍃 (staks, “mark”). See attacher. For levelling and shortening of diphthong ai in taikns compare Old French hanter, hangart, etc. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan (“sign, symbol, feature”), Old English tācn (“sign, marker”). More at token.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taʃ/
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- Rhymes: -aʃ
Noun
tache f (plural taches)
- blot, stain or smear
- spot; more or less stain-like mark of a different color
- (skin) blotch, mark
- moral depravation
- annoying or despicable person
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Related terms
Further reading
- “tache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French attacher (“attach”).
Verb
tache
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain. Two origins are proposed:
- From Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikną (“sign, mark”).
- From the verb tachier, from Latin taxāre (“to feel, touch”).
Noun
tache oblique singular, f (oblique plural taches, nominative singular tache, nominative plural taches)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tache)
Spanish
Noun
tache m (plural taches)
Verb
tache
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