tac

tac

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lowland Tarahumara.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lowland Tarahumara terms

• IPA^(key): /tæk/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophones: tach, tack

tac (uncountable)

1. (Geordie, slang) The drug cannabis.

tac (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of tactical.

• cat, Cat, act., Act., CAT, ATC, Act, act, A.C.T., A. C. T., CTA, cat-, ACT, TCA

• tacu

From Latin taceō. Compare Romanian tăcea, tac.

tac first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative tatsi or tatse, past participle tãcutã)

1. to be silent, keep quiet

• tãtseari / tãtseare
• tãcut

From Arabic تَاج (tāj), ultimately of Iranian origin.

• IPA^(key): [tɑd͡ʒ], [tɑd͡z]

• Audio:

  (file)

tac (definite accusative tacı, plural taclar)

1. crown

• taxt-tac

• tàc (Modenese)
• tâc (Bolognese, Reggiano, Carpigiano)

tac m (plural tac) (Mirandola)

1. the back of a shoe
2. heel of a shoe

• arbòt (Bolognese)

• IPA^(key): /tak/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ak

Onomatopoeic

tac

1. tick, tock
   • 1968, Serge Gainsbourg, “Bonnie and Clyde”, in Initials B.B., performed by Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot:

     Dans les trois jours, voilà le tac, tac, tac / Des mitraillettes qui reviennent à l'attaque

     Within three days, there's the rat-a-tat-tat / Of machine guns back on the attack

2. Onomatopoeia (but not an interjection) which is used to express the accomplishment of what we are doing. Tac, c'est fait.

Inherited from Middle French tac.

tac m (uncountable)

1. mange

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

• IPA^(key): /tak/

tac f (plural tacs)

1. badger

From Latin taceō.^[1] Compare Romanian tăcea, tac.

tac

1. I am silent, keep quiet.

• tățiri, tățeari / tățęri

• tag, dach

Inherited from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ and Old Norse dagr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). ^[1]

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈtak/

tac m

1. day
2. age, lifetime
3. (politics) convention, congress
4. (in a religious context) judgement day

• Alemannic German: Tag

  Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

  Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

  Swabian: Dag

• Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

  Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

  Mòcheno: ta

  Udinese: tach, ti

• Central Franconian: Daach

  Hunsrik: Daagh, taach (Wiesemann spelling system), Tóch, Tooch (Altenhofen spelling)

• East Central German:

  Upper Saxon German: Dag

• German: Tag

  Esperanto: tago

• Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
• Rhine Franconian: Tach

  Pennsylvania German: Daag

• Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
• Vilamovian: taog
• Yiddish: טאָג (tog)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “tac”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

• IPA^(key): /tak/

tac m

1. alternative form of tag

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

• IPA^(key): /ˈtat͡s/
• Rhymes: -at͡s
• Syllabification: tac

tac f

1. genitive plural of taca

Borrowed from Greek τάκος (tákos).

tac n (plural tacuri)

1. (billiards) cue

tac

1. inflection of tăcea:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

• IPA^(key): /ˈtak/ [ˈt̪ak]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: tac

tac m (plural tacs)

1. CAT
2. knock; clack; tock (sound)

• “tac”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024