talon
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin tālōnem, from Vulgar Latin *tālōnis, from Latin tālus (“ankle”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
talon (plural talons)
- A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
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- It may be tried also whether birds may not have something done to them when they are young , whereby they may be made to have greater or longer bills , or greater and longer talons ?
- (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
- (architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
- The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
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- (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.
- (finance, historical) A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.
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Dupaningan AgtaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talun, from Proto-Austronesian *CaluN. Cognate with Javanese talun (“unirrigated field abandoned after harvest”), Maori taru (“grass, weeds, small vegetation”), Samoan talutalu (“young trees grown up where there had been a plantation”).
NounEdit
talon
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FinnishEdit
NounEdit
talon
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French talon (“heel, spur”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
talon m (plural talons)
- heel (part of the foot)
- backheel
- heel (of footwear) (especially high heel)
- spur (sharp implement used to prod a horse)
- (figuratively) the bottom or lower part of something
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Portuguese: talão
Further readingEdit
- “talon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
MaranaoEdit
NounEdit
talon
Derived termsEdit
- tatalonen (“rancher”)
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.
NounEdit
talon m (plural talons)
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.
NounEdit
talon m (oblique plural talons, nominative singular talons, nominative plural talon)
- (Anatomy) heel (of the foot)
DescendantsEdit
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French talon, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin tālus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
talon m inan
DeclensionEdit
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Further readingEdit
- talon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
TagalogEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Compare Malay terjun (“to dive, to jump from a high place”).
NounEdit
talón
- jump; leap
- jump or dive into water; plunge
- Synonym: sisid
- skip or omission, as in typing
- a kind of bet in sakla (a gambling game)
- waterfall; falls
- (slang) prison escapee
- Synonym: takas
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Etymology 2Edit
From Spanish talón (“heel, check”), from Latin talo, from talus (“ankle; heel”).
NounEdit
talón
- stub (of a check, receipt, etc.)
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WelshEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈtalɔn/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈtaːlɔn/, /ˈtalɔn/
VerbEdit
talon
- (colloquial) first-person plural preterite of talu
- (colloquial) third-person plural preterite of talu
MutationEdit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| talon | dalon | nhalon | thalon |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||