Tango

See also: tango and tangó

Translingual

Tango [1]
Tango [2]
Tango [3]

Alternative forms

• tango, TANGO

Etymology

Borrowed from English tango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtaŋɡo]

Noun

Tango

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter T.
2. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter T.
3. (time zone) UTC−07:00

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes

code	Alfa	Bravo	Charlie	Delta	Echo	Foxtrot	Golf	Hotel	India	Juliett	Kilo	Lima	Mike
	November	Oscar	Papa	Quebec	Romeo	Sierra	Tango	Uniform	Victor	Whiskey	Xray	Yankee	Zulu
	zero	one	two	three (tree)	four (fower)	five (fife)	six	seven	eight	nine (niner)	hundred	thousand	decimal

Translations

the letter "T" in a national spelling alphabet

• Czech: Tomáš (cs)
• English: Tare
• Estonian: Tango (et)
• Finnish: Tyyne (fi)
• Italian: Taranto (it), Torino (it)
• Russian: Тама́ра (ru) (Tamára), Татья́на (ru) (Tatʹjána)
• Spanish: Tarragona (es), Teruel (es)
• Swedish: Tore (sv)

English

Etymology

Two main origins:

• Borrowed from Italian Tango, probably a patronymic surname from a Germanic personal name.
• Borrowed from Japanese 丹後 (Tango), the name of an old province of central Japan.

Proper noun

Tango (plural Tangos)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tango is the 39659^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 554 individuals. Tango is most common among White (72.38%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (18.05%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tango”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtaŋɡo]

• Audio (Austria):

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Noun

Tango m (strong, genitive Tangos, plural Tangos)

1. tango (dance)
2. pilsner mixed with grenadine or (in Westphalia) with one of the red soft drinks Regina or Emsgold

Declension

Declension of Tango [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Tango	die	Tangos
genitive	eines	des	Tangos	der	Tangos
dative	einem	dem	Tango	den	Tangos
accusative	einen	den	Tango	die	Tangos

Further reading

• “Tango” in Duden online
• “Tango” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Etymology

Probably a patronymic surname from a Germanic personal name containing the element *þankaz (“thought, mind, consideration”).

Proper noun

Tango m or f by sense

1. a surname transferred from the given name

Further reading

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2024