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tango

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Tango of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

From Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).

Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ

Argentine tango (dance)

1901-10-12, Flamenco Tango, Medina Vera

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:

ballroom dance

Translations to be checked

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.

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

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."

tangô

  1. a nod

tango (Badlit spelling ᜆᜅᜓ)

  1. (anatomy) a tooth with a single cusp; a cuspid; a canine
    Coordinate terms: unto, bangkil, bag-ang
  2. (zoology) a fang; a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or injecting venom
  3. (zoology) a tusk; one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as a walrus, elephant or wild boar
  4. cog of gears

tango (Badlit spelling ᜆᜅᜓ)

  1. to nod

tango n

  1. tango (Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Spanish tango.

tango c (singular definite tangoen, plural indefinite tangoer)

  1. tango

Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

tango m (plural tango's)

  1. tango (Argentine-Uruguayan dance and musical style)

From Argentine-Spanish tango.

tango

  1. tango

tango m (plural tangos)

  1. tango (dance)
  2. tango (music)

tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tanguer

Borrowed from Spanish tango.

tango m (plural tanghi)

  1. tango

tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tangere

tango

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たんご
  2. Rōmaji transcription of タンゴ

From Proto-Italic *tangō, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō), τεταγών (tetagṓn),[1] Old English þaccian (“to touch, pat”). More at thack, thwack.

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

  1. (transitive) to touch, grasp
    Nōlī mē tangere.
    Don't touch me.
  2. (transitive) to reach, arrive at, come to a place
  3. (transitive) to attain to
  4. (transitive) to subtract, rob
  5. (transitive) to strike, beat, knock
  6. (transitive) to move, affect, influence
    • 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

1At 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").

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tangō, tangere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 606–607

Borrowed from Spanish tango.

tango n

  1. tango (ballroom dance)

tango

Borrowed from Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language.

tango m (plural tangos)

  1. tango (ballroom dance)
  2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tangar

tango n (plural tangouri)

  1. Obsolete form of tangou.

tangô

  1. nod

tȁngo m (Cyrillic spelling та̏нго)

  1. tango (dance)

Derived from Spanish tango.

tango n (genitive singular tanga, nominative plural tangá, genitive plural táng, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. (dance) tango

Probably from a Niger-Congo language, but an onomatopoeic origin for the dance has been suggested as well.

tango m (plural tangos)

  1. tango (ballroom dance)
  2. a style of music associated with the tango dance (used to accompany and set the beat for the dance)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tangar

tango class V (plural matango class VI)

  1. cucumber
    Synonym: tangopepeta

From Spanish tango.

tango c

  1. (dance) tango
    att dansa tango
    to tango ["to dance type of dance" is idiomatic in Swedish (including for dances that end in "-dans")]

Compare Bikol Central tango, Kapampangan tangu, and Maranao dango.

tangô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅᜓ)

  1. nod; nodding (of the head)
    Synonym: pagtango
  2. (by extension) consent; agreement
    Synonyms: pagpayag, pagsang-ayon, pag-oo, pagpapahinuhod, pagpapaoo

tango

  1. (intransitive) to lie down

tangó

  1. canine tooth
  2. tusk of animals