phalange
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See also: Phalange
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French phalange. Doublet of phalanx, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]phalange (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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[edit]Translations
[edit]phalanx — see phalanx
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from either Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx) or Latin phalangem. Doublet of palanque and palanche. See also the related planche.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]phalange f (plural phalanges)
- (anatomy) phalanx
- (historical) phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “phalange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]phalange
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]phalange f (plural phalanges)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of falange.
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