# tac
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tæk/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æk
* Homophones: tach, tack

### Noun

tac (uncountable)
* (Geordie, slang) The drug cannabis.

### Adjective

tac (not comparable)
* Abbreviation of tactical.

#### See also

* tac-au-tac
* tac squad
* tic tac
* tic-tac-toe

### Anagrams

* cat, Cat, act., Act., CAT, ATC, Act, act, A.C.T., A. C. T., CTA, cat-, ACT, TCA

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* tacu

### Etymology

From Latin taceō. Compare Romanian tăcea, tac.

### Verb

tac first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative tatsi or tatse, past participle tãcutã)
* to be silent, keep quiet

#### Related terms

* tãtseari / tãtseare
* tãcut

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Arabic تَاج (tāj), ultimately of Iranian origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tɑd͡ʒ], [tɑd͡z]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tac (definite accusative tacı, plural taclar)
* crown

#### Derived terms

* taxt-tac

## Emilian
### Alternative forms

* tàc (Modenese)
* tâc (Bolognese, Reggiano, Carpigiano)

### Noun

tac m (plural tac) (Mirandola)
* the back of a shoe
* heel of a shoe

#### Synonyms

* arbòt (Bolognese)

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tak/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ak

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic

#### Interjection

tac
* tick, tock
** 1968, Serge Gainsbourg, “Bonnie and Clyde”, in Initials B.B., performed by Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot:Dans les trois jours, voilà le tac, tac, tac / Des mitraillettes qui reviennent à l’attaqueWithin three days, there's the rat-a-tat-tat / Of machine guns back on the attack
* Onomatopoeia (but not an interjection) which is used to express the accomplishment of what we are doing. Tac, c'est fait.

##### Derived terms

* du tac au tac
* avoir le tac
* tac-tac
* tactactac
* tic-tac
* tacot

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French tac.

#### Noun

tac m (uncountable)
* mange

### Further reading

* “tac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tak/

### Noun

tac f (plural tacs)
* badger

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin taceō. Compare Romanian tăcea, tac.

### Verb

tac
* I am silent, keep quiet.

#### Related terms

* tățiri, tățeari / tățęri

### References

* ↑ https://www.dex.ro/t%C4%83cea

## Middle High German
### Alternative forms

* tag, dach

### Etymology

Inherited from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ and Old Norse dagr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈtak/

### Noun

tac m
* day
* age, lifetime
* (politics) convention, congress
* (in a religious context) judgement day

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: Tag
    Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)
    Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg
    Swabian: Dag
* Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch
    Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage
    Mòcheno: ta
    Udinese: tach, ti
* Central Franconian: Daach
    Hunsrik: Daagh, taach (Wiesemann spelling system), Tóch, Tooch (Altenhofen spelling)
* East Central German:
    Upper Saxon German: Dag
* German: Tag
    Esperanto: tago
* Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
* Rhine Franconian: Tach
    Pennsylvania German: Daag
* Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
* Vilamovian: taog
* Yiddish: טאָג (tog)

### References

* ↑ Pfeifer, Wolfgang. 1995, 2005. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. München: dtv. →ISBN.

### Further reading

* Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “tac”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

## Old High German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tak/

### Noun

tac m
* Alternative form of tag

### References

* Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtat͡s/
* Rhymes: -at͡s
* Syllabification: tac

### Noun

tac f
* genitive plural of taca

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek τάκος (tákos).

#### Noun

tac n (plural tacuri)
* (billiards) cue

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tac
* inflection of tăcea:
** first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** third-person plural present indicative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtak/ [ˈt̪ak]
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: tac

### Noun

tac m (plural tacs)
* CAT
* knock; clack; tock (sound)

### Further reading

* “tac”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10