talon
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French talon (“heel, spur”).
Pronunciation
Noun
talon (plural talons)
- A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
- (architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
- The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- In the card game bezique, the remaining stock of undealt cards.
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Dupaningan Agta
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talun, from Proto-Austronesian *CaluN. Cognate with Javanese talun (“unirrigated field abandoned after harvest”), Maori taru (“grass, weeds, small vegetation”), Samoan talutalu (“young trees grown up where there had been a plantation”).
Noun
talon
Synonyms
Finnish
Noun
talon
- (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of talo
- (deprecated template usage) accusative singular of talo
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French talon (“heel, spur”).
Pronunciation
Noun
talon m (plural talons)
- heel (part of the foot)
- backheel
- heel (of footwear)
- spur (sharp implement used to prod a horse)
- (figuratively) the bottom or lower part of something
Derived terms
Descendants
- Portuguese: talão
Further reading
- “talon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.
Noun
talon m (plural talons)
Old French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *talonis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin talus.
Noun
talon oblique singular, m (oblique plural talons, nominative singular talons, nominative plural talon)
- (Anatomy) heel (of the foot)
Descendants
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
talon m inan
Declension
Welsh
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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Verb
talon
- (colloquial) first-person plural preterite of talu
- (colloquial) third-person plural preterite of talu
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