tacha

tacha

1. third-person singular past historic of tacher

• achat

• chata

14th century. From Old French tache (“stain, blemish”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taikną (“sign, token”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtat͡ʃa̝/

tacha f (plural tachas)

1. defect, blemish
   1. also moral defect
      • c1375, Eladio Oviedo Arce (ed.), "Fragmento de una versión gallega del Código de Las Partidas de Alfonso el Sabio", in López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, pp. 116-129:

        como se pode desfazer a venda do seruo se o vendedor a encobre a chata ou a maldade dela

        how to undo the sale of a serf when the seller hides the blemish or the meanness of this sale

• tachar

• tachola

• “tacha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “tacha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tacha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chata” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tacha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tacha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chata” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Occitan tacha.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ʃɐ/
• Hyphenation: ta‧cha

tacha f (plural tachas)

1. small nail; pin

tacha

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of tachar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of tachar

From Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, of Germanic origin, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikniz (“sign, mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *deik'e-, *deig'- (“to show”). Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkjan (“to stick, attach”) and Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐍃 (staks, “mark”). See attacher. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan (“sign, symbol, feature”), Old English tācn (“sign, marker”). More at token.

tacha f (plural tachas)

1. fault, blemish
2. any cross out sign (/, \, - or X)
3. (slang) An ecstasy pill; MDMA

tacha

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tachar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tachar.