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• tallus

発音

• IPA: /ˈteɪləs/
• 韻: -eɪləs

語源 1

From Latin tālus.

名詞

talus (plural tali)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.

同意語

派生語

参考

語源 2

From French talus.

名詞

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.

等位語

参照

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

アナグラム

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈtaː.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈtaː.lus]

名詞

tālus m (genitive tālī); second declension

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

   Coordinate terms: tessera, ālea

3. (figuratively) the heel

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

同意語

• (heel): calx, tālō (Medieval Latin)

派生語

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

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “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, 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