tango

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtæŋɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtæŋɡoʊ/

Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ

Argentine tango (dance)

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

1. A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
2. A piece of music suited to such a dance.
3. The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
4. (slang) enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
5. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

   tango colour:  

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.

• it takes two to tango

• Atong, Tonga, on tag, tag on, tonga

• Hyphenation: ta‧ngo

tango

1. A tooth with a single cusp; a cuspid; a canine.
2. A fang; a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or injecting venom.
3. 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.

tango

1. To nod.

tango n

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

From Spanish tango.

• IPA^(key): /tanɡo/, [ˈtˢɑŋɡ̊o]

tango c (singular definite tangoen, plural indefinite tangoer)

1. tango

From Argentine-Spanish tango.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑŋːo/, [ˈt̪ɑŋːo̞]
• Hyphenation: tan‧go

tango

1. tango

• Tonga, togan, tonga

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.ɡo/

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tango m (plural tangos)

1. tango (dance)

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

• Rhymes: -anɡo

tango

1. first-person singular present indicative of tangere

tango m (plural tanghi)

1. tango

• Tonga

tango

1. Rōmaji transcription of たんご

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.ɡoː/, [ˈtaŋ.ɡoː]

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

1. (transitive) I touch, grasp.

   Noli me tangere.

   Don't touch me.

2. (transitive) I reach, arrive at.
3. (transitive) I attain to.
4. (transitive) I move, affect.
5. (transitive) I come home to.

• attingō
• contingō
• obtingō
• pertingō

• integer
• rem acū tetigistī, acū tetigistī
• tāctilis
• tangibilis
• taxō

• tango in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
    

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

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɐ̃.ɡu/
• Hyphenation: tan‧go

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

• IPA^(key): /tânɡo/
• Hyphenation: tan‧go

tȁngo m (Cyrillic spelling та̏нго)

1. tango (dance)

From Spanish tango.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋɡɔ/

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

1. (dance) tango

• tangový

• tango in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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)

• tanguito

• Tonga

tango (ma class, plural matango)

1. cucumber

tangó

1. canine tooth
2. tusk of animals