tasse

See also: tassé, tâsse, and Tasse

English

Alternative forms

• tace

Etymology

From Middle English tasse (“armor plate protecting the hip”), 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; bag”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

tasse (plural tasses)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each being of one piece or segmented) hanging from the bottom of the breastplate or from faulds.

   Synonym: tasset

   • 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.

   • 2022, Tim Akers, Valhellions, Baen Books, →ISBN:

     The tasse, meant only to cover the hips, was so long that its edges scraped against the floor.

Translations

thigh armor

• French: tassette (fr) f

Anagrams

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

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”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tā́ćšti, from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti ~ *tétḱ-n̥ti, from *tetḱ- (“to create”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tas/, /tɑs/

• audio (France)

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• audio (Quebec)

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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 thé
• tasse à vin
• tasse de thé
• tassée
• tassement
• tasser
• tasserie
• tassetier
• tassette
• tasseur

 

Descendants

• → Central Franconian: Tas, Taas
• → Dutch: (dialectal) tas
• → Luxembourgish: Taass
• → Vietnamese: tách

See also

• verre

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• stase

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas.se/
• Rhymes: -asse
• Hyphenation: tàs‧se

• Audio

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Noun

tasse f

1. plural of tassa

Anagrams

• asset, sesta, stase, stesa, tessa

Swedish

Etymology

A noa-name, a euphemistic replacement of the word ulv or varg (which is in itself originally a noa-word).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tasɛ/
• Rhymes: -²asɛ

Noun

tasse c

1. (dialectal, euphemistic) wolf

Declension

Declension of tasse
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tasse	tassen	tassar	tassarna
Genitive	tasses	tassens	tassars	tassarnas

Synonyms

• gråben
• ulv
• varg

Derived terms

• tassemark

References

• tasse in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• asets, asset, etsas