talus

See also: tálus and tālus

English

Alternative forms

• tallus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪləs/
• Rhymes: -eɪləs

Etymology 1

From Latin tālus

Noun

talus (plural tali)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.

Translations

anklebone — see anklebone

Synonyms

• anklebone
• astragalus

Derived terms

• taler

See also

• bone

Etymology 2

From French talus.

Noun

talus (plural taluses)

1. (geology) 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.

2. (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.

Translations

A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice

• Catalan: talús (ca) m
• Czech: osyp m
• Danish: ur (da) c
• Faroese: urð f
• Norwegian: ur (no) c

  Nynorsk: steinrøys f

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• Russian: о́сыпь (ru) f (ósypʹ)
• Slovak: suť f
• Slovene: melišče n
• Swedish: taluskon c

References

• William Duane, A Military Dictionary, p. 179.
• Template:Wikisource1911Enc Citation

Anagrams

• Altus, Aults, Austl., Latus, Tauls, Tulsa, latus, sault

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French

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Gaulish *talutum, derived from *talos (“peak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ly/

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Noun

talus m (plural talus)

1. slope, embankment

Descendants

• Catalan: talús
• Galician: talude
• Portuguese: talude
• Spanish: talud

Further reading

• “talus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• salut

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tākslos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los, from *teh₂g- (“to touch”) (whence tangō, also possibly Sanskrit तल (tala, “plane, surface”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.lus/, [ˈt̪äːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lus/, [ˈt̪äːlus]

Noun

tālus m (genitive tālī); second declension

1. (anatomy) the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone
2. an oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides
3. (figuratively) the heel

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tālus	tālī
Genitive	tālī	tālōrum
Dative	tālō	tālīs
Accusative	tālum	tālōs
Ablative	tālō	tālīs
Vocative	tāle	tālī

Synonyms

• (heel): calx

Derived terms

• subtel
• tālāris
• tālārius
• *tālōnis (Vulgar Latin)
• tāxillus

Descendants

• English: talus
• Italian: talo

References

• “talus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “talus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• talus 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)
• talus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the conversation began in this way: sermo inductus a tali exordio
    
• “talus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “talus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “talus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin