tango
English
Etymology
Argentine-Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ
Noun
tango (plural tangos or tangoes)
- A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
- A piece of music suited to such a dance.
- The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
- (slang) enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
- A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
- tango:
Translations
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Verb
tango (third-person singular simple present tangoes, present participle tangoing, simple past and past participle tangoed)
- To dance the tango.
- (slang, intransitive) To mingle or interact (with each other).
- 2013, Kathy Casey, D'Lish Deviled Eggs (page 67)
- Creamy cheese, tangy-sweet peppers, and a hit of heat tango in this sexy deviled-egg combo.
- 2013, Kathy Casey, D'Lish Deviled Eggs (page 67)
See also
Anagrams
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ta‧ngo
Noun
tango
- A tooth with a single cusp; a cuspid; a canine.
- A fang; a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or injecting venom.
- A tusk; one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as a walrus, elephant or wild boar.
Verb
tango
- To nod.
Czech
Noun
tango n
- tango (Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango)
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tango c (singular definite tangoen, plural indefinite tangoer)
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | tango | tangoen | tangoer | tangoerne |
genitive | tangos | tangoens | tangoers | tangoernes |
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.
Pronunciation
Noun
tango m (plural tango's)
- tango (Argentine-Uruguayan dance and musical style)
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tango
Declension
Inflection of tango (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tango | tangot | |
genitive | tangon | tangojen | |
partitive | tangoa | tangoja | |
illative | tangoon | tangoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tango | tangot | |
accusative | nom. | tango | tangot |
gen. | tangon | ||
genitive | tangon | tangojen | |
partitive | tangoa | tangoja | |
inessive | tangossa | tangoissa | |
elative | tangosta | tangoista | |
illative | tangoon | tangoihin | |
adessive | tangolla | tangoilla | |
ablative | tangolta | tangoilta | |
allative | tangolle | tangoille | |
essive | tangona | tangoina | |
translative | tangoksi | tangoiksi | |
abessive | tangotta | tangoitta | |
instructive | — | tangoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
tango m (plural tangos)
- tango (dance)
Further reading
- “tango”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 2
Noun
tango m (plural tanghi)
Etymology 2
Verb
tango
Anagrams
Further reading
- tango in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Japanese
Romanization
tango
Latin
Etymology
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From Proto-Italic *tangō, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō), τεταγών (tetagṓn)[1], Old English þaccian (“to touch, pat”). More at thack, thwack.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtan.ɡoː/, [ˈt̪äŋɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtan.ɡo/, [ˈt̪äŋɡo]
Verb
tangō (present infinitive tangere, perfect active tetigī, supine tāctum); third conjugation
- (transitive) I touch, grasp.
- Nōlī mē tangere.
- Don't touch me.
- Nōlī mē tangere.
- (transitive) I reach, arrive at.
- (transitive) I attain to.
- (transitive) I move, affect.
- (transitive) I come home to.
Conjugation
Conjugation of tangō (third conjugation) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | tangō | tangis | tangit | tangimus | tangitis | tangunt |
imperfect | tangēbam | tangēbās | tangēbat | tangēbāmus | tangēbātis | tangēbant | |
future | tangam | tangēs | tanget | tangēmus | tangētis | tangent | |
perfect | tetigī | tetigistī | tetigit | tetigimus | tetigistis | tetigērunt, tetigēre | |
pluperfect | tetigeram | tetigerās | tetigerat | tetigerāmus | tetigerātis | tetigerant | |
future perfect | tetigerō | tetigeris | tetigerit | tetigerimus | tetigeritis | tetigerint | |
passive | present | tangor | tangeris, tangere |
tangitur | tangimur | tangiminī | tanguntur |
imperfect | tangēbar | tangēbāris, tangēbāre |
tangēbātur | tangēbāmur | tangēbāminī | tangēbantur | |
future | tangar | tangēris, tangēre |
tangētur | tangēmur | tangēminī | tangentur | |
perfect | tāctus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | tāctus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | tāctus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | tangam | tangās | tangat | tangāmus | tangātis | tangant |
imperfect | tangerem | tangerēs | tangeret | tangerēmus | tangerētis | tangerent | |
perfect | tetigerim | tetigerīs | tetigerit | tetigerīmus | tetigerītis | tetigerint | |
pluperfect | tetigissem | tetigissēs | tetigisset | tetigissēmus | tetigissētis | tetigissent | |
passive | present | tangar | tangāris, tangāre |
tangātur | tangāmur | tangāminī | tangantur |
imperfect | tangerer | tangerēris, tangerēre |
tangerētur | tangerēmur | tangerēminī | tangerentur | |
perfect | tāctus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | tāctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | tange | — | — | tangite | — |
future | — | tangitō | tangitō | — | tangitōte | tanguntō | |
passive | present | — | tangere | — | — | tangiminī | — |
future | — | tangitor | tangitor | — | — | tanguntor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | tangere | tetigisse | tāctūrum esse | tangī | tāctum esse | tāctum īrī | |
participles | tangēns | — | tāctūrus | — | tāctus | tangendus, tangundus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
tangendī | tangendō | tangendum | tangendō | tāctum | tāctū |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “tango”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tango”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tango in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the lightning has struck somewhere: fulmen locum tetigit
- to be struck by lightning: fulmine tangi, ici
- to be struck by lightning: de caelo tangi, percuti
- the country-house stands near the road: villa tangit viam
- to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: tangere, attingere terram
- to touch briefly on a thing: breviter tangere, attingere aliquid
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
- you have hit the nail on the head: rem acu tetigisti
- the lightning has struck somewhere: fulmen locum tetigit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Portuguese
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/TangoCouple.jpg/200px-TangoCouple.jpg)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: tan‧go
Noun
tango m (plural s)
- tango (ballroom dance)
- a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)
Verb
tango
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
tȁngo m (Cyrillic spelling та̏нго)
- tango (dance)
Declension
Slovak
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tango n
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tango”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Etymology
Probably from a Niger-Congo language, but an onomatopoeic origin for the dance has been suggested as well.
Noun
tango m (plural tangos)
- tango (ballroom dance)
- a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Swahili
Noun
tango (ma class, plural matango)
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tango c
Declension
Declension of tango | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tango | tangon | tangor, tangoer, tangos | tangorna, tangoernas |
Genitive | tangos | tangons | tangors, tangoers, tangos | tangornas, tangoernas |
References
Anagrams
Waray-Waray
Noun
tangó
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