talion

From Middle French talion, from Latin talis (“such”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtalɪən/

talion (uncountable)

1. Retaliation; retribution.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     Simple talion may be fine for wartime, but politics between wars demands symmetry and a more elegant idea of justice, even to the point of masquerading, a bit decadently, as mercy.

• Latino, Latino-, Natoli, NoLIta, latino, lation

talion

1. accusative singular of talio

Inherited from Middle French talion, borrowed from Latin taliōnem, from talis (“such”).

• IPA^(key): /ta.ljɔ̃/

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talion m (uncountable)

1. retaliation
2. (law) a punishment equal to the injury sustained

• “talion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

First known attestation in 1395,^[1] borrowed from Latin tāliō.

talion f (plural talions)

1. punishment consisting of the offender having done to him or her what he or she has done to the victim

• French: talion
  • → Romanian: talion
• → English: talion

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “talion”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French talion.

talion n (uncountable)

1. talion, retaliation