Translingual

Symbol

Tango

1. The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

German

Pronunciation

Noun

Tango m ‎(genitive Tangos, plural Tangos)

1. (dance) tango

English

Noun

Argentine tango (dance)

tango ‎(plural tangos or tangoes)

1. A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
2. A piece of music suited to such a dance.
3. The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
4. (slang) enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
5. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

   tango colour:

Translations

Verb

tango ‎(third-person singular simple present tangoes, present participle tangoing, simple past and past participle tangoed)

1. To dance the tango.
2. (slang, intransitive) To mingle or interact (with each other).
   • 2013, Kathy Casey, D'Lish Deviled Eggs (page 67)

     Creamy cheese, tangy-sweet peppers, and a hit of heat tango in this sexy deviled-egg combo.

See also

• it takes two to tango

Anagrams

• tonga, Tonga

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧ngo

Noun

tango

1. A tooth with a single cusp; a cuspid; a canine.
2. A fang; a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or injecting venom.
3. A tusk; one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as a walrus, elephant or wild boar.

Verb

tango

1. To nod.

Czech

Noun

tango n

1. tango (Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango)

Danish

Etymology

From Spanish tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tanɡo/, [ˈtˢɑŋɡ̊o]

Noun

tango c (singular definite tangoen, plural indefinite tangoer)

1. tango

Inflection

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑŋːo/
• Hyphenation: tan‧go

Noun

tango

1. tango

Declension

Anagrams

• togan, Tonga, tonga

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.ɡo/

Noun

tango m ‎(plural tangos)

1. tango (dance)

Italian

Verb

tango

1. first-person singular present indicative of tangere

Noun

tango m ‎(plural tanghi)

1. tango

Anagrams

• Tonga

Japanese

Romanization

tango

1. rōmaji reading of たんご

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tangō, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek τάσσω ‎(tássō), τεταγών ‎(tetagṓn)^[1], Old English þaccian ‎(“to touch, pat”). More at thack, thwack.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ɡoː/, [ˈtaŋ.ɡoː]

Verb

tangō ‎(present infinitive tangere, perfect active tetigī, supine tāctum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) I touch, grasp.

   Noli me tangere.

   Don't touch me.

2. (transitive) I reach, arrive at.
3. (transitive) I attain to.
4. (transitive) I move, affect.
5. (transitive) I come home to.

Inflection

Derived terms

• attingō
• contingō
• obtingō
• pertingō

Related terms

• integer
• rem acū tetigistī, acū tetigistī
• tāctilis
• tangibilis
• taxō

Descendants

• English: tangible, tangent
• Italian: tangere
• Spanish: tañer, tangir
• Portuguese: tanger

References

• tango in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tango in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tango”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the lightning has struck somewhere: fulmen locum tetigit
    
  • to be struck by lightning: fulmine tangi, ici
    
  • to be struck by lightning: de caelo tangi, percuti
    
  • the country-house stands near the road: villa tangit viam
    
  • to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: tangere, attingere terram
    
  • to touch briefly on a thing: breviter tangere, attingere aliquid
    
  • to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
    
  • you have hit the nail on the head: rem acu tetigisti
    

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Portuguese

tango

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɐ̃.ɡu/
• Hyphenation: tan‧go

Noun

tango m (plural tangos)

1. tango (ballroom dance)
2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

Verb

tango

1. first-person singular present indicative of tangar

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tânɡo/
• Hyphenation: tan‧go

Noun

tȁngo m ‎(Cyrillic spelling та̏нго)

1. tango (dance)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from a Niger-Congo language, but an onomatopoeic origin for the dance has been suggested as well.

Noun

tango m ‎(plural tangos)

1. tango (ballroom dance)
2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

Derived terms

• tanguito

Anagrams

• Tonga

Swahili

Noun

tango (needs class)

1. cucumber