phalange

Borrowed from Middle French phalange.

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

phalange (plural phalanges)

1. (obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.). [15th–17th c.]
2. (anatomy) A phalanx ("one of the bones of the finger or toe"). [from 17th c.]
3. (zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
4. (botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
5. A phalanstery.
   • 1910, Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovskiĭ, Modern Socialism in Its Historical Development, page 164:

     The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]

• Gen Alpha

Borrowed from either Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx) or Latin 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

phalange

1. ablative singular of phalanx

phalange f (plural phalanges)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of falange.