talus

• tallus

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪləs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪləs

From Latin tālus.

talus (plural tali)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.

From French talus.

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.

• William Duane, A Military Dictionary, p. 179.
• Talus in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• Altus, Aults, Austl., Latus, Tauls, Tulsa, latus, sault

talus

1. inessive singular of talu

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

• IPA^(key): /ta.ly/

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talus m (plural talus)

1. slope, embankment

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

• “talus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• salut

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

• Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los, from *teh₂g- (“to touch”) (whence tangō).
• Alternatively, cognate with Sanskrit तल (tala, “plane, surface”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)
• From *steh₂- (“to stand”) +‎ *-tleh₂/*-dʰleh₂ (instrument noun suffix), and directly cognate with Welsh sawdl (“heel”). This is phonetically difficult, as it requires an s-less variant of *steh₂-, as well as addition of an unknown and arbitrary suffix *-k-.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.lus/, [ˈt̪äːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lus/, [ˈt̪äːlus]

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

Second-declension noun.

• (heel): calx, tālō (Medieval Latin)

• subtel
• tālāris
• tālārius
• tālō; tālōnus (Medieval Latin, from Romance)
• tāxillus

• English: talus
• French: talon
• Italian: talo
• ⇒ Italian: talismo
• → Portuguese: tálus

• “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, 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