See talus on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *tākslos, with multiple theories proposed:\n* Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los, from *teh₂g- (“to touch”) (whence tangō).\n* Alternatively, cognate with Sanskrit तल (tala, “plane, surface”).\n* 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-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tālus",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "tālī",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "tālus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tālī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tālī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tālōrum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tālō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tālīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tālum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tālōs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tālō",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "tālīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tāle",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "tālī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tālus<2>"
},
"expansion": "tālus m (genitive tālī); second declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tālus<2>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"la:Anatomy"
],
"glosses": [
"the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone"
],
"links": [
[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
],
[
"ankle",
"ankle"
],
[
"anklebone",
"anklebone"
],
[
"animals",
"animals"
],
[
"talus",
"talus#English"
],
[
"knucklebone",
"knucklebone"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(anatomy) the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
],
"topics": [
"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"la:Dice games"
],
"glosses": [
"an oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides"
],
"links": [
[
"dice game",
"dice game"
],
[
"oblong",
"oblong"
],
[
"die",
"die"
],
[
"rounded",
"rounded"
],
[
"ends",
"ends"
],
[
"marked",
"marked"
],
[
"four",
"four"
],
[
"sides",
"sides"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dice games) an oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2"
],
"topics": [
"dice",
"games"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"the heel"
],
"links": [
[
"heel",
"heel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) the heel"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtaː.lus/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt̪äːɫ̪ʊs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈta.lus/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt̪äːlus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "heel",
"word": "calx"
},
{
"sense": "heel",
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin"
],
"word": "tālō"
}
],
"word": "talus"
}
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