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talpa

See also: talpă and Talpa

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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talpa (plural talpae)

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

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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talpa

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

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative talpa —
accusative talpát —
dative talpának —
instrumental talpával —
causal-final talpáért —
translative talpává —
terminative talpáig —
essive-formal talpaként —
essive-modal talpául —
inessive talpában —
superessive talpán —
adessive talpánál —
illative talpába —
sublative talpára —
allative talpához —
elative talpából —
delative talpáról —
ablative talpától —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		talpáé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		talpáéi —

Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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talpa f (plural talpe)

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

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talpa m (invariable)

  1. moleskin (medium taupe-brown)

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Latin

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Etymology

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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”).

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Noun

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talpa f (genitive talpae); first declension

  1. mole (a burrowing animal)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative talpa talpae
Genitive talpae talpārum
Dative talpae talpīs
Accusative talpam talpās
Ablative talpā talpīs
Vocative talpa talpae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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.

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin talpa (“mole”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtalpo/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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talpa m (plural talpas)

  1. mole

Romanian

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Noun

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talpa

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of talpă

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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tȃlpa f (Cyrillic spelling та̑лпа)

  1. (regional) plank
    Synonym: dàska

Declension

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Declension of talpa
singular plural
nominative talpa talpe
genitive talpe tȃlpā / tȃlpī
dative talpi talpama
accusative talpu talpe
vocative talpo talpe
locative talpi talpama
instrumental talpom talpama

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Noun

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talpa f (plural talpas)

  1. talpa
    Synonym: talparia

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