talpa

From Latin talpa (“mole”). Doublet of taupe.

talpa (plural talpae)

1. (medicine, obsolete) An encysted tumour on the head; a wen.

• Plata, lapta

talp (“sole”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒlpɒ]
• Hyphenation: tal‧pa

talpa

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of talp

From Latin talpa (“mole”). Doublet of topo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtal.pa/
• Rhymes: -alpa
• Hyphenation: tàl‧pa

talpa f (plural talpe)

1. mole (animal or planted spy)
2. moleskin
3. excavator

talpa m (invariable)

1. moleskin (medium taupe-brown)

• palta

The etymology is unknown. Lewis and Short attribute this to the same root as Latin scalpō. However it is often ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground”). Maybe transferred from a Germanic word for “paw” owing to the animal’s massive forelimbs, see Romanian talpă (“sole”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtaɫ.pa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪al.pa]

talpa f (genitive talpae); first declension

1. mole (a burrowing animal)

First-declension noun.

• talpīnus

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “talpa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 605
• “talpa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “talpa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "talpa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• talpa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin talpa (“mole”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtalpo/

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talpa m (plural talpas)

1. mole

talpa

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of talpă

Likely from Romanian talpă (“sole; treadle; board”), which see for the uncertain way of diffusion.

tȃlpa f (Cyrillic spelling та̑лпа)

1. (regional) plank

   Synonym: dàska

• IPA^(key): /ˈtalpa/ [ˈt̪al.pa]
• Rhymes: -alpa
• Syllabification: tal‧pa

talpa f (plural talpas)

1. talpa

   Synonym: talparia

• “talpa”, 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