tale

Signification (Anglais)

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. (archaic, rare) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
11. (archaic, rare) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

Verb

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

Concepts

conte

histoire

récit

légende

fable

anecdote

relation

baratin

nouvelle

compte rendu

narration

conte de fées

théatre

dit

racontar

étage

chanson

🎶

bobard

devinette

Synonymes

story

narrative

legend

fable

account

fairy tale

narration

history

news

📰

myth

anecdote

yarn

🧶

fib

fiction

episode

report

happening

description

event

tell a story

occurrence

tarradiddle

taradiddle

recital

message

narrate

parable

proverb

recounting

relate

relation

relationship

riddle

saga

short story

song

🎶

speech

talk

🗣️

tell

theater

theatre

tittle-tattle

understanding

verb

version

word

romance

talebearing

tall tale

novelet

Traductions

cuento

Erzählung

Geschichte

racconto

Märchen

storia

verhaal

vertelsel

conto

historia

vertelling

favola

relaas

fiaba

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈteɪl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: tale

Hérité de ancien anglais: talu

Appartenant à frison occidental: taal

Appartenant à néerlandais: taal

Appartenant à allemand: Zahl

Appartenant à danois: tale

Appartenant à islandais: tala

Appartenant à latin: dolus

Appartenant à grec ancien: δόλος

Appartenant à albanais: ndjell

Appartenant à Northern Kurdish: til

Appartenant à Classical Armenian: տող

In summary

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.