Wiktionary

talon

See also: Talon and talón

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

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  • Rhymes: -ælən
  • IPA(key): /ˈtælən/

NounEdit

talon (plural talons)

  1. A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
      and now doth gaſtly death
      With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart,
      And like a Harpye tires on my life.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “8. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
      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 ?
  2. (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
  3. (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.)
  4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
    • 1856, George Price, A Treatise on Fire and Thief-proof Depositories, and Locks:
      The locks were constructed with two or three levers, and sometimes with a common tumbler. The talon is the secret; for after locking the bolt out, the key is turned round again quietly to catch the nib and force the talon up
  5. (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.
  6. (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.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

remaining stock of undealt cards — see stock

AnagramsEdit

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

  1. forest, jungle, woods, remote area, mountains

SynonymsEdit

FinnishEdit

NounEdit

talon

  1. Genitive singular form of talo.
  2. Accusative singular form of talo.

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

talon m (plural talons)

  1. heel (part of the foot)
  2. backheel
  3. heel (of footwear) (especially high heel)
  4. spur (sharp implement used to prod a horse)
  5. (figuratively) the bottom or lower part of something

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Portuguese: talão

Further readingEdit

MaranaoEdit

NounEdit

talon

  1. herd
  2. flock

Derived termsEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

talon

  1. Alternative form of taloun

NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.

NounEdit

talon m (plural talons)

  1. (Jersey, anatomy, etc.) heel

Old FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.

NounEdit

talon m (oblique plural talons, nominative singular talons, nominative plural talon)

  1. (Anatomy) heel (of the foot)

DescendantsEdit

PolishEdit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

From French talon, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin tālus.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

talon m inan

  1. coupon, voucher (piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services)
    Synonyms: bon, kupon, kwit, voucher

DeclensionEdit

Declension of talon
singular plural
nominative talon talony
genitive talonu talonów
dative talonowi talonom
accusative talon talony
instrumental talonem talonami
locative talonie talonach
vocative talonie talony

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • talon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • talon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

TagalogEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ta.ˈlon/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧lon
  • Rhymes: -on

Etymology 1Edit

Compare Malay terjun (“to dive, to jump from a high place”).

NounEdit

talón

  1. jump; leap
    Synonyms: lundag, paglundag, igpaw, pag-igpaw, lukso
  2. jump or dive into water; plunge
    Synonym: sisid
  3. skip or omission, as in typing
  4. a kind of bet in sakla (a gambling game)
  5. waterfall; falls
    Synonym: (Marinduque) busay
  6. (slang) prison escapee
    Synonym: takas
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Spanish talón (“heel, check”), from Latin talo, from talus (“ankle; heel”).

NounEdit

talón

  1. stub (of a check, receipt, etc.)
Related termsEdit

WelshEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • talom (literary, first-person plural)
  • talont (literary, third-person plural)

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

talon

  1. (informal) first-person plural preterite of talu
  2. (informal) 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.
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