tacón

See also: tacon

Galician

Alternative forms

• tacom, tacão (reintegrationist)

Etymology

12th century. Debated: perhaps from a West Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *takkô (“tip; point; protrusion; prong; tine; jag; spike; twig”): compare Portuguese tacão, Spanish tacón, English tach, Old French taque (“nail, pin, peg”), Dutch tak (“twig; branch; limb”), German Zacke (“jag; prong; spike; tooth; peak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈkoŋ/ [t̪ɑˈkoŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: ta‧cón

Noun

tacón m (plural tacóns)

1. heel (of a shoe)
2. patch
   • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 94:

     Iten çapatos de ome de pẽe et de lavrador trese blanquas et hũu coroado. Iten tacoes para estes çapatos seis blanquas et dous coroados. Iten çapatos para moços pequeños de quinse annos ajuso des blanquas. Iten tacoes para estes çapatos, quatro blanquas. Iten çapatos para ome ou moller solados et sobresolados viinte blanquas

     Item, shoes for peons and laborers, thirteen white coins and a crown. Item, heels for these shoes, six white coins and two crowns. Item, shoes for youngsters, fifteen years old or less, ten white coins. Item, heels for these shoes, four white coins. Item, shoes for man of woman, soiled and lined, twenty white coins.

Derived terms

• tacoar

Related terms

• taco

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tacon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “taco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tacon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tacón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tacón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From taco +‎ -ón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈkon/ [t̪aˈkõn]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ta‧cón

Noun

tacón m (plural tacones)

1. heel (part of a shoe's sole)
2. (Mexico, Central America, Cuba, usually in the plural) high heel

Derived terms

• tacón de aguja
• taconazo
• taconear
• taconeo

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: tacon
• → Tagalog: takong

Further reading

• “tacón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28