Tangoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈtæŋɡəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈtæŋɡoʊ/

韻: -æŋɡəʊ

名詞

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

1. (dance) A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
2. (dance) A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
3. (music) A piece of music suited to such a dance.
4. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

   tango:  

使用する際の注意点

• The name of the flamenco dance may be written tangos.

派生語

動詞

tango (third-person singular simple present tangoes, present participle tangoing, simple past and past participle tangoed)

1. To dance the tango.
2. (slang, intransitive) To mingle or interact (with each other).
   • 2013, Kathy Casey, D'Lish Deviled Eggs, page 67:

     Creamy cheese, tangy-sweet peppers, and a hit of heat tango in this sexy deviled-egg combo.

参考

• it takes two to tango

語源 2

From translingual Tango (representing the letter T), from English tango (see above).

名詞

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

1. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Tango from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
2. (US, law enforcement, military slang) A target; an enemy.

   Tango down!

   • 2005, Charles W. Sasser, Detachment Delta: Operation Aces Wild, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370:

     The two tangoes running toward the carnage at the prison door dropped simultaneously, dead in their tracks.

   • 2017, Beth Rhodes, Strike Zone, →ISBN, page 210:

     The sharp crack of breaking glass preceded Emily's calm voice. "One tango dead and Marcus is down, John."

派生語

• whiskey tango foxtrot

Further reading

• “tango down”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

アナグラム

• Atong, Tonga, on tag, tag on, tonga

語源

From Proto-Italic *tangō, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō), τεταγών (tetagṓn), 古期英語 þaccian (“to touch, pat”). More at thack, thwack.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈtaŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈtaŋ.ɡo]

動詞

tangō (present infinitive tangere, perfect active tetigī, supine tāctum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to touch, grasp

   Synonyms: contingō, temptō, tractō

   Near-synonyms: mulceō, palpō

   Nōlī mē tangere.

   Don't touch me.

2. (transitive) to reach, arrive at, come to a place

   Synonyms: perveniō, adveniō, obeō, adsum, teneō

3. (transitive) to attain to
4. (transitive) to subtract, rob
5. (chiefly poetic, transitive) to strike, beat, knock

   Synonyms: mulcō, feriō, icō, percutiō, impingō, caedō, verberō

6. (transitive) to move, affect, influence

   Synonyms: moveō, perpellō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.653:

     saepe tamen patriae dulcī tanguntur amōre

     Yet often they are moved by sweet love of [their] native land

7. (transitive) to bewitch, enchant, charm
8. (transitive) to come home to

Conjugation

At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

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参照

Further reading

• “tango”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tango in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “tango”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tango”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the lightning has struck somewhere: fulmen locum tetigit
    
  • to be struck by lightning: fulmine tangi, ici
    
  • to be struck by lightning: de caelo tangi, percuti
    
  • the country-house stands near the road: villa tangit viam
    
  • to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: tangere, attingere terram
    
  • to touch briefly on a thing: breviter tangere, attingere aliquid
    
  • to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
    
  • you have hit the nail on the head: rem acu tetigisti