tasse
See also: tassé, tâsse, and Tasse
English
Alternative forms
- tace
Etymology
From Middle English tasse (“armor plate protecting the hip”), from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), from Frankish *taska (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ, cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch; bag”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tæs/
Audio (Berkshire) (file)
Noun
tasse (plural tasses)
- A piece of armor for the thighs, in the form of plates (of one piece or segmented) hanging from the breastplate or from faulds.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:
- This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers.
- Synonym: tasset
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Translations
thigh armor
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Anagrams
- ASSET, SEATs, SESTA, Seats, TASes, TESSA, Tessa, asset, easts, sates, satés, seats, setas, tases
French
Etymology
From Arabic طَاس (ṭās) (a shortening of طَسْت (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tā́ćšti, from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti ~ *tétḱ-n̥ti, from *tetḱ- (“to create”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tas/, /tɑs/
audio (France) (file) audio (Quebec) (file)
Noun
tasse f (plural tasses)
- cup
- cupful
Derived terms
- boire la tasse
- ce n'est pas ma tasse de thé
- demi-tasse
- dessous de tasse
- la grande tasse
- sous-tasse
- tassage
- tassé
- tasse à thé
- tasse à vin
- tasse de thé
- tassée
- tassement
- tasser
- tasserie
- tassetier
- tassette
- tasseur
Descendants
- → Central Franconian: Tas, Taas
- → Luxembourgish: Taass
- → Vietnamese: tách
See also
- verre
Further reading
- “tasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- stase
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtas.se/
- Rhymes: -asse
- Hyphenation: tàs‧se
Audio (file)
Noun
tasse f
- plural of tassa
Anagrams
- asset, sesta, stase, stesa, tessa
Swedish
Etymology
A noa-name, a euphemistic replacement of the word ulv or varg (which is in itself originally a noa-word).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²tasɛ/
- Rhymes: -²asɛ
Noun
tasse c
- (dialectal, euphemistic) wolf
Declension
| Declension of tasse | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | tasse | tassen | tassar | tassarna |
| Genitive | tasses | tassens | tassars | tassarnas |
Synonyms
- gråben
- ulv
- varg
Derived terms
- tassemark
References
- tasse in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
- asets, asset, etsas