talpa

See also: talpă and Talpa

English

Etymology

Latin talpa (“mole”)

Noun

talpa

1. (medicine, obsolete) An encysted tumour on the head; a wen.

Anagrams

• Plata, lapta

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Hungarian

Etymology

talp +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒlpɒ]
• Hyphenation: tal‧pa

Noun

talpa

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of talp

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	talpa	—
accusative	talpát	—
dative	talpának	—
instrumental	talpával	—
causal-final	talpáért	—
translative	talpává	—
terminative	talpáig	—
essive-formal	talpaként	—
essive-modal	talpául	—
inessive	talpában	—
superessive	talpán	—
adessive	talpánál	—
illative	talpába	—
sublative	talpára	—
allative	talpához	—
elative	talpából	—
delative	talpáról	—
ablative	talpától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	talpáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	talpáéi	—

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin talpa (“mole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtal.pa/

Noun

talpa f (plural talpe)

1. mole (animal or planted spy)
2. moleskin
3. excavator

Noun

talpa m (uncountable)

1. moleskin (colour)

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Latin

Etymology

Lewis and Short attribute to the same root as Latin scalpō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtal.pa/, [ˈt̪äɫ̪pä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtal.pa/, [ˈt̪älpä]

Noun

talpa f (genitive talpae); first declension

1. mole (a burrowing animal)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	talpa	talpae
Genitive	talpae	talpārum
Dative	talpae	talpīs
Accusative	talpam	talpās
Ablative	talpā	talpīs
Vocative	talpa	talpae

Derived terms

• talpīnus

Descendants

• Catalan: talp
• Esperanto: talpo
• French: taupe
• Galician: toupa

• Italian: talpa, topo
• Occitan: talpa
• Portuguese: toupeira
• Spanish: talpa, topo

References

• “talpa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “talpa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• talpa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• talpa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin talpa (“mole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtalpo/

Noun

talpa m (plural talpas)

1. mole

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?].

Noun

tȃlpa f (Cyrillic spelling та̑лпа)

1. (regional) plank

Declension

Declension of talpa

	singular	plural
nominative	talpa	talpe
genitive	talpe	tȃlpā / tȃlpī
dative	talpi	talpama
accusative	talpu	talpe
vocative	talpo	talpe
locative	talpi	talpama
instrumental	talpom	talpama

Synonyms

• dàska