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“talc” in Latin
talcumtalc; talcumfābuladiscourse, narrative; a fable, tale, story; a playnārrātiōnarration, narrative, storynumerusnumber; Roman military unit; collection, quantityēnārrōto explain in detail, to expounddēnārrōto tell, relate, narrate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
talc
*talcum (Linn.): ☞ lapis specularis, lapis phengites = mica. TALE.
That which one relates, a narrative, story, fabula: narratio: fabella. A mere tale, fabula ficta: ficta et commenticia fabula: nursery tales, fabulae atque commenticiae narrationes: to tell (relate) a tale, enarrare, denarrare, aliquid: fabulam narrare.
That which one counts, a number, numerus: double tale, numerus duplicatus: the tale is right, numerus convenit: to tell (count) a tale, numerare, dinumerare (Cic.); numerum inire (Curt.); numerando percensere.
ImPROP. This is the old tale, hoc vero tralaticium est (e.g., me exquisisse aliquid, in quo te offendam, Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for talc?
- The usual Latin words for “talc” are talcum, fābula, nārrātiō; also numerus, ēnārrō, dēnārrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.