taille
English
Etymology
From Middle French taille (“cut”, noun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taɪ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪ
- Homophones: tie, Ty
Noun
taille (countable and uncountable, plural tailles)
- (historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 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 [...].
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 143:
- (music, obsolete) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola.
Related terms
- tallage (“a tax”)
Anagrams
- tallie
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for taille in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French taille, from Latin talea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.jə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: tail‧le
Noun
taille f (plural tailles, diminutive tailletje n)
- waistline
Derived terms
- wespentaille
French
Etymology
From Old French taille, from Latin talea (“a cutting”). Compare Italian taglia, Catalan talla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taj/, /tɑj/
audio (file)
Noun
taille f (plural tailles)
- the act of cutting, pruning, trimming
- Synonym: coupe
- size
- Synonyms: grandeur, gabarit
- 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 […]
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- waistline
- a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage
Derived terms
- de taille
- pierre de taille
- taillable
- taille de guêpe
- tour de taille
Related terms
- tailler
Descendants
- → Danish: talje
Further reading
- “taille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
taille
- Alternative form of tayl
Old French
Alternative forms
- tallie (rare, Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
From Latin tālea (“a cutting”).
Noun
taille f (oblique plural tailles, nominative singular taille, nominative plural tailles)
- cut (act; instance of cutting)
- cut; wound; incision (result of being cut)
- cut (of clothing)
- a count kept by carving notches into a stick
- (by extension) a count; a tally
- charge; levy; taxation; tax
Descendants
- Middle French: taille
- French: taille
- → Danish: talje
- → English: taille
- French: taille
- → Irish: táille
- → Middle English: talie
- English: tally
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (taille, supplement)
- taille on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub