Noun: tacón
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | tacón |
| Plural m | tacóns |
Sample Sentences
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1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 94 (Item, shoes for peons and laborers, thirteen white coins and a crown. Item, heels for these shoes, six white coins and two crowns. Item, shoes for youngsters, fifteen years old or less, ten white coins. Item, heels for these shoes, four white coins. Item, shoes for man of woman, soiled and lined, twenty white coins.)
Nouns inflected like tacón
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
12th century. Debated: perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *takkō (“twig, branch, shoot”): compare Portuguese tacão, Spanish tacón, English tach, Old French taque (“nail, pin, peg”), Dutch tak (“twig; branch; limb”), German Zacke (“jag; prong; spike; tooth; peak”). See: Portuguese Nouns '
tacão', Spanish Nouns '
tacón', English Nouns '
tach', Dutch Nouns '
tak', German Nouns '
Zacke'.
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