phalange
See also: Phalange
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French phalange.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfælændʒ/, /fəˈlændʒ/
- Rhymes: -ændʒ
Noun
phalange (plural phalanges)
- (obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.). [15th–17th c.]
- (anatomy) A phalanx. [from 17th c.]
- (zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
- (botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
- A phalanstery.
- 1910, Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovskiĭ, Modern Socialism in Its Historical Development (page 164)
- The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]
- 1910, Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovskiĭ, Modern Socialism in Its Historical Development (page 164)
Derived terms
- distal phalange
- intermediate phalange
- middle phalange
- phalangeal
- proximal phalange
Translations
phalanx — see phalanx
Anagrams
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from either Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx) or Latin phalanx, phalangem. Doublet of palanque and palanche. See also the related planche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.lɑ̃ʒ/
Audio (file)
Noun
phalange f (plural phalanges)
- (anatomy) phalanx
- (historical) phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.)
Derived terms
- phalangette
Further reading
- “phalange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Noun
phalange
- ablative singular of phalanx
Portuguese
Noun
phalange f (plural phalanges)
- Obsolete spelling of falange (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).