taille

See also: Taille, taillé, and táille

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French taille (“cut”, noun). Doublet of tally.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɪ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophones: tie, Ty, Thai

Noun

taille (countable and uncountable, plural tailles)

  1. (historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 143:
      The main royal tax was the taille, a tax on landed wealth, distributed among the généralités and assessed and levied in a variety of ways, and it was supplemented by a range of other direct taxes [...].
  2. (baroque music jargon) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola

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Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French taille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.jə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tail‧le

Noun

taille f (plural tailles, diminutive tailletje n)

  1. waistline

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French taille, deverbal of Old French taillier (“to cut”). Compare Italian taglia, Catalan talla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taj/ ~ /tɑj/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

taille f (plural tailles)

  1. the act of cutting, pruning, trimming
    Synonym: coupe
  2. size
    Synonyms: grandeur, gabarit
  3. waist
    • 2005, Marc-André Wagner, Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques: paganisme, christianisme et traditions [The Horse in Germanic Beliefs: Paganism, Christianity, and Traditions], Honoré Champion, →ISBN:
      Le dernier type est le "cheval-jupon", un terme que l'ethnologue réserve à un déguisement pour une personne, constitué comme suit : le corps de la personne est entouré à la taille par un tissu — le jupon — recouvrant l'essentiel de ses jambes, une tête du cheval en bois […]
      The last type is the "hobby horse", a term which Ethnologue reserves for a disguise for a person, made as follows: the body of the person is surrounded at the waist by a cloth — the skirt — covering most of his legs; a horse's head of wood […]
  4. waistline
  5. a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage
  6. (baroque music jargon) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Danish: talje
  • → Dutch: taille
  • → Russian: та́лия (tálija)
  • → Spanish: talla

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

taille

  1. alternative form of tayl

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Deverbal from taillier (“to cut”).

Noun

taille oblique singular, f (oblique plural tailles, nominative singular taille, nominative plural tailles)

  1. cut (act; instance of cutting)
  2. cut; wound; incision (result of being cut)
  3. cut (of clothing)
  4. a count kept by carving notches into a stick
  5. (by extension) a count; a tally
  6. charge; levy; taxation; tax

Descendants

References

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