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5-letter words (4 found)

LATUS,SALUT,SAULT,TALUS,

4-letter words (13 found)

ALTS,ALUS,LAST,LATS,LATU,LUST,SALT,SAUL,SAUT,SLAT,SLUT,TAUS,UTAS,

3-letter words (13 found)

ALS,ALT,ALU,ATS,LAS,LAT,SAL,SAT,SAU,TAS,TAU,UTA,UTS,

2-letter words (8 found)

AL,AS,AT,LA,ST,TA,US,UT,

You can make 38 words from talus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of talus

talus atlus tlaus ltaus altus latus tauls atuls tuals utals autls uatls tluas ltuas tulas utlas lutas ultas aluts lauts aults ualts luats ulats talsu atlsu tlasu ltasu altsu latsu taslu atslu tsalu stalu astlu satlu tlsau ltsau tslau stlau lstau sltau alstu lastu asltu saltu lsatu slatu tausl atusl tuasl utasl autsl uatsl tasul atsul tsaul staul astul satul tusal utsal tsual stual ustal sutal austl uastl asutl sautl usatl suatl tlusa ltusa tulsa utlsa lutsa ultsa tlsua ltsua tslua stlua lstua sltua tusla utsla tsula stula ustla sutla lusta ulsta lsuta sluta uslta sulta alust laust aulst ualst luast ulast alsut lasut aslut salut lsaut slaut auslt uaslt asult sault usalt sualt lusat ulsat lsuat sluat uslat sulat

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Definitions and meaning of talus

talus

Alternative forms

  • tallus

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɪləs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪləs

Etymology 1

From Latin tālus.

Noun

talus (plural tali)

  1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.
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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.
  2. (architecture) The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.
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Translations
References
  • William Duane, A Military Dictionary, p. 179.
  • Talus in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

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

Estonian

Noun

talus

  1. inessive singular of talu

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.ly/

Noun

talus m (plural talus)

  1. slope, embankment

Descendants

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

References

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • salut

Latin

Etymology

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

  • 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-.

Pronunciation

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

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 noun.

Synonyms

  • (heel): calx, tālō (Medieval Latin)

Derived terms

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

Descendants

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

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 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “talus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2]
  • “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

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