English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Latino, lation

Esperanto

Noun

talion

1. accusative singular of talio

French

Noun

talion m ‎(uncountable)

1. retaliation

Middle French

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Descendants

• English: talion (borrowed)
• French: talion

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (talion, supplement)

1. ↑ “talion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).