English

Alternative forms

• tallus

Noun

talus ‎(plural tali)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.

Translations

Synonyms

• anklebone
• astragalus

Derived terms

• taler

See also

• bone

Etymology 2

From French talus.

Noun

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.

2. (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.

Translations

References

• William Duane, A Military Dictionary, p. 179.
• Talus in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Anagrams

• Altus, latus, sault, Tulsa

French

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Gaulish *talutum, derived from *talos ‎(“peak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taly/

Noun

talus m ‎(plural talus)

1. slope, embankment

Descendants

• Catalan: talús
• Portuguese: talude
• Spanish: talud

Anagrams

• salut

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tākslos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los, from *teh₂g- ‎(“to touch”) (whence tangō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.lus/, [ˈtaː.ɫʊs]

Noun

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

Declension

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (heel): calx

Derived terms

• subtel
• tālāris
• tālārius
• *tālōnis (Vulgar Latin)
• tāxillus

Descendants

• English: talus
• Italian: talo

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “talus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the conversation began in this way: sermo inductus a tali exordio
    
• talus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• 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