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): /ˈtat͡ʃa/ [ˈt̪a̠.t͡ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Hyphenation: ta‧cha

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tacha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “tacha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tacha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chata”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tacha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chata”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chata”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• taca

tacha f (plural tachas)

1. (Limousin) blot, stain or smear
2. large-headed nail^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.xa/
• Rhymes: -axa
• Syllabification: ta‧cha

tacha

1. third-person singular present of tachać

• Homophone: taxa
• Rhymes: -aʃɐ
• Hyphenation: ta‧cha

From Old Occitan tacha.

tacha f (plural tachas)

1. small nail; pin

tacha

1. inflection of tachar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈtat͡ʃa/ [ˈt̪a.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Syllabification: ta‧cha

Borrowed 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 *deyḱ-. Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkjan 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

   Synonyms: falta, defecto, imperfección, deficiencia, falla, mancha

2. any cross out sign (/, \, —, or X)
3. a type of small nail
4. (law) A legal argument for doubting a witness's testimony
5. (slang) an ecstasy pill; MDMA

tacha

1. inflection of tachar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

tacha f (plural tachas)

1. (Canary Islands, Granada, Cuba, Mexico) An apparatus in which sugar cane syrup is evaporated to produce panela
2. (Mexico) A syrup of piloncillo and spices
   • 2017, Sofía Segovia, El Murmullo de las Abejas, 1st edition, Mexico City, Mexico: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, →ISBN, page 242:

     Ahora, en dos mesas a la sombra del gran nogal a un lado de la casa, disfrutaban el clima perfecto para comer y luego hacer la sobremesa en el exterior, tomando café y saboreando la calabaza en tacha y las bolitas de leche de cabra quemada con nuez que doña Sinforosa había elaborado para la ocasión.

     Now, at two tables in the shade of the large walnut tree on one side of the house, they enjoyed perfect weather for eating and then relaxing at the table outside, drinking coffee and savoring the pumpkin in tacha syrup and the little balls of caramelized goat's milk with walnuts that Mrs. Sinforosa had prepared for the occasion.

3. (Venezuela) alternative form of tacho

• “tacha”, 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