[ˈtalənt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- natural aptitude or skill
(e.g: he possesses more talent than any other player)

- a former weight and unit of currency, used especially by the ancient Romans and Greeks
(e.g: a mighty steed bought from a Thessalian merchant for thirteen talents)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English talente, talentan (as a unit of weight), from Latin talenta, plural of talentum ‘weight, sum of money’, from Greek talanton. talent is a figurative use with biblical allusion to the parable of the talents (Matt. 25:14–30)