phalange
See also: Phalange
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French phalange. Doublet of phalanx, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editphalange (plural phalanges)
- (obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.). [15th–17th c.]
- (anatomy) A phalanx ("one of the bones of the finger or toe"). [from 17th c.]
- (zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
- (botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
- A phalanstery.
- 1910, Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovskiĭ, Modern Socialism in Its Historical Development, page 164:
- The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]
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editTranslations
editphalanx — see phalanx
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editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from either Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx) or Latin phalangem. Doublet of palanque and palanche. See also the related planche.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editphalange f (plural phalanges)
- (anatomy) phalanx
- (historical) phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “phalange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editNoun
editphalange
Portuguese
editNoun
editphalange f (plural phalanges)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of falange.
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