phalange

Borrowed from Middle French phalange.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfælændʒ/, /fəˈlændʒ/

phalange (plural phalanges)

1. (obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.). [15th-17th c.]
2. (anatomy) A phalanx. [from 17th c.]
3. (zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
4. (botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.

Borrowed from either Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx) or Latin phalanx, phalangem. Doublet of palanque and palanche. See also the related planche.

• IPA^(key): /fa.lɑ̃ʒ/

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phalange f (plural phalanges)

1. (anatomy) phalanx
2. (historical) phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.)

• phalangette

• “phalange” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

phalange

1. ablative singular of phalanx

phalange f (plural phalanges)

1. Obsolete spelling of falange (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).