talea

From Latin tālea. Doublet of taille and tally.

talea (plural taleae)

1. (music) A repeated rhythmic pattern used in isorhythm.

• Altea, alate

From Latin tālea (“cutting; scion”).

talea f (plural talee)

1. cutting, scion

• taleaggio

• alate, altea

Of unclear origin. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂l- (“to grow; young animal”) and compared with Ancient Greek τᾶλῐς (tâlis, “maiden, bride”), but the existence of this root, as well as the cognacy of the Greek term, has been called into question. The only other viable etymology that has been described in the literature considers the term as a derivative of tālus (“ankle, knuckle”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtaː.le.a/, [ˈt̪äːɫ̪eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.le.a/, [ˈt̪äːleä]

tālea f (genitive tāleae); first declension

1. A long or slender piece of wood or metal; rod, stick, stake, bar.
2. A cutting, set or layer for planting.
3. (by extension) A scion, twig, sprig.

First-declension noun.

• (rod): virga
• (scion): virga

• tāleola
• taliō
• taleāre

• Old French: taille, tallie (rare, Anglo-Norman)
  • Middle French: taille
    • French: taille
      • → Danish: talje
    • → English: taille
  • → Irish: táille
  • → Middle English: talie
    • English: tally
• Italian: talea
• Spanish: tajar
• Portuguese: talhar
• → German: Teller
• → North Frisian: täliir (Halligen)
• → Dutch: taloor (Belgian, West Flemish, informal)

• “talea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “talea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• talea 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)
• talea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.