tale

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
3. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
4. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
5. (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
6. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
7. (obsolete) Speech; language.
8. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
9. (obsolete) A count; declaration.
10. A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
11. A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
2. To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

Conceptos

cuento

historia

relato

leyenda

conseja

narración

relación

pamplina

chisme

fábula

noticia

cuento de hadas

acuerdo

conexión

conocido

novela

historieta

teatro

mito

aviso

suceso que se comunica

comunicación

información

informe

noticias

cuenta

bola

mentira

novela corta

narrativa

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈteɪl/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English tale, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).
Cognate with West Frisian taal (“speech, language”), Dutch taal (“language, speech”), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Icelandic tala (“speech, talk, discourse, number, figure”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “wile, bait”), Albanian ndjell (“to lure”), Northern Kurdish til (“finger”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk.