talus

• tallus

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

From Latin tālus

talus (plural tali)

1. (anatomy) The bone of the ankle.

• anklebone
• astragalus

• taler

• bone

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

Unknown. Possibly from Gaulish *talutum, derived from *talos (“peak”).

• IPA^(key): /ta.ly/

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talus m (plural talus)

1. slope, embankment

• Catalan: talús
• Galician: talude
• Portuguese: talude
• Spanish: talud

• “talus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• salut

From Proto-Italic *tākslos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los, from *teh₂g- (“to touch”) (whence tangō, also possibly Sanskrit तल (tala, “plane, surface”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.lus/, [ˈtaː.ɫʊs]

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.

• (heel): calx

• subtel
• tālāris
• tālārius
• *tālōnis (Vulgar Latin)
• tāxillus

• English: talus
• Italian: talo

• 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, 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