See also: Talus, tálus, and tālus

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Etymology 1

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From Latin tālus.

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talus (plural tali)

  1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.
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Etymology 2

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From French talus.

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talus (plural taluses)

  1. (geology) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
    • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
      By the time he reached the first talus slides under the tall escarpments of the Pilares the dawn was not far to come.
    • 2024 May 29, Nick Brodrick, “Between a rock and a wet place...”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 39:
      Above here is what is known as a talus slope - sandstone that has gradually disintegrated and tumbled down to create a menacing sloping pile of loose rock.
  2. (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.
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talus

  1. inessive singular of talu

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Unknown. Possibly from Gaulish *talutum (slope), derived from *talu (front), from Proto-Celtic *talu (front). Compare Latin talutium (slope containing gold deposits).[1]

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talus m (plural talus)

  1. slope, embankment

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  • Catalan: talús
  • English: talus
  • Galician: talude
  • Portuguese: talude
  • Spanish: talud

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  1. ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “talu-, talamon-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 288

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Latin

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From Proto-Italic *tākslos, with multiple theories proposed:[1]

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tālus m (genitive tālī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone
  2. an oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides
  3. (figuratively) the heel

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tālus tālī
genitive tālī tālōrum
dative tālō tālīs
accusative tālum tālōs
ablative tālō tālīs
vocative tāle tālī

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  • talus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • talus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • talus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • talus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the conversation began in this way: sermo inductus a tali exordio
  • talus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
  • talus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • talus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 605-6