toro

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See also: Törö, törö, Toro, toró, Toró, tōrō, and törő

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠.

Noun

toro (plural toros or toro)

  1. A traditional Japanese lantern.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

toro

  1. Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand.

Anagrams

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoɾo/ [ˈto.ɾo]
  • Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

tóro (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜍᜓ)

  1. bull
    Synonym: mangsad

See also

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan toro, from Latin taurus. Directly inherited from Latin, despite the final vowel.[1] Cognate with Occitan taur. Old Catalan also had a form taur, which was borrowed from Latin.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

  1. bull
  2. bittern
  3. (colloquial) forklift

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “toro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  2. ^ “taur” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish toro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoɾo/, [ˈt̪o.ɾo]
  • IPA(key): /ˈtoɾu/, [ˈt̪o.ɾu] (Ternateño)
  • Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

toro

  1. bull

Esperanto

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Etymology

Ultimately from Latin torus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtoro]
  • Rhymes: -oro
  • Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

toro (accusative singular toron, plural toroj, accusative plural torojn)

  1. torus

Galician

Toros

Etymology 1

13th century. Inherited from Latin torus, cognate with Spanish tuero.[1] In the second meaning it is rather a learned borrowing from Latin from the same etymon.

Pronunciation

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

  1. tree trunk
    Synonym: tora
    • 1277, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, editor, Os documentos do tombo de Toxos Outos, Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 112:
      todos estes disserun que a herdade dessa hermida de San Martino de Rates que era departida da outra herdade regaenga pela cerdeyra do outeyro que esta cabo do camino, et dessi como uay et enfia ao toro do castineiro de cyma que chaman da senrra do regaengo
      all of them said that the property of the hermitage of Saint Martin of Rates departed from the other royal property by the cherry tree of the hill, which is by the path, and from there in direction to the trunk of the chestnut tree above where they call the Senra do Reguengo
  2. tree round section
    Synonym: torada
  3. round slice of fish
    Synonym: roda
Derived terms

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

  1. (architecture, geometry) torus

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tuero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Etymology 2

Verb

toro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of torar

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Noun

tóro

  1. bull, ox

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English torus, French tore, German Torus, Italian toro, Russian торус (torus), ultimately from Latin torus.

Pronunciation

Noun

toro (plural tori)

  1. (geometry, architecture) torus

Italian

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Etymology

From Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.ro/
  • Rhymes: -ɔro
  • Hyphenation: tò‧ro

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

  1. bull
  2. Taurus
  3. (mathematics, geometry) torus

See also

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

toro

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とろ

Karitiâna

Noun

toro

  1. otter

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with mũgwacĩ, nyamũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

toro class 14 (plural matoro)[2]

  1. sleep

References

  1. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  2. ^ “toro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 461. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Latin

Noun

torō

  1. dative/ablative singular of torus

References

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuzuq.

Verb

toro

  1. to show
  2. to point out, indicate
Focus (Voice)
Agent
(Active) 		man-form: manoro
mi-form: --
om-form: --
Patient
(Passive) 		toroana
alternate: --
a-form: atoro
voa-form: voatoro
tafa-form: --
Goal
(Relative) 		an-form: anoroana
i-form: --

Mansaka

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

Numeral

toro

  1. three

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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toro

Etymology 1

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

  1. tree ring
  2. torus (three dimensional shape)

Etymology 2

Verb

toro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of torar

San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Noun

toro (plural ndoro)

  1. bull

References

  • Stewart, Cloyd, Stewart, Ruth D., colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎[1] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN

Spanish

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Toro (A bull).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoɾo/ [ˈt̪o.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -oɾo
  • Syllabification: to‧ro

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin taurus (compare Italian toro, Portuguese touro, Romanian taur), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of Tauro.

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

  1. bull
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Navajo: dóola
  • → Northern Tepehuan: tuúru
  • → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: toro
  • → Southeastern Tepehuan: tuur
  • → Taos: tùluʼúna
  • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: turo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin torus (“swelling, bulge, cushion”). Doublet of the inherited tuero.

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

  1. (geometry, architecture) torus
See also

Etymology 3

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

  1. (colloquial) forklift, lift truck, jitney, fork truck (a small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved)
    Synonyms: carretilla, carretilla elevadora, grúa horquilla, montacargas

Further reading

Anagrams

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus. Doublet of Tawro.

Pronunciation

Noun

toro (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜓ)

  1. bull

See also

Further reading

  • “toro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

West Makian

Pronunciation

Verb

toro

  1. (intransitive) to sit

Conjugation

Conjugation of toro (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person totoro motoro atoro
2nd person notoro fotoro
3rd person inanimate itoro dotoro
animate
imperative notoro, toro fotoro, toro

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

Etymology

From tò (“to arrange; to align”) +‎ rò

Pronunciation

Verb

tòrò

  1. to be settled, to be at peace
    Synonym: rójú
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