"Tarsus" is a word in ENGLISH

A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the
eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and
tarsal plate.

The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot
between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short
bones.

The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists
of form two to five joints.