tasse

See also: tassé, tâsse, and Tasse

English

Alternative forms

• tace
• tasset

Etymology

From Middle English tasse, tache, from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), from Frankish *taska (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ, cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch”).

Noun

tasse (plural tasses)

1. A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:

     This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers.

Anagrams

• ASSET, SEATs, SESTA, TASes, TESSA, Tessa, asset, easts, sates, satés, seats, setas, tases

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French

Etymology

From Arabic طَاس‎ (ṭās) (a shortening of طَسْت‎ (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑs/

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Noun

tasse f (plural tasses)

1. cup
2. cupful

Derived terms

• boire la tasse
• ce n'est pas ma tasse de thé
• demi-tasse
• dessous de tasse
• la grande tasse
• sous-tasse
• tassage
• tassé
• tasse à vin
• tassée
• tassement
• tasser
• tasserie
• tassetier
• tassette
• tasseur

 

Descendants

• → Luxembourgish: Taass
• → Vietnamese: tách

See also

• verre

Further reading

• “tasse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• stase

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Italian

Pronunciation

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Noun

tasse f

1. plural of tassa

Anagrams

• asset, sesta, stesa, tessa