toro

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠.

Noun

toro (plural toros or toro)

A traditional Japanese lantern.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

toro

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

Anagrams

Root, Toor, root, roto, roto-, troo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tóro (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜍᜓ)

bull
Synonym: mangsad

Related terms

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

IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɔ.ɾu]

IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɔ.ɾo]
Audio: (file)

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

Derived terms

torejar
toro mecànic

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.

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish toro.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

toro

bull

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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)

torus

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

IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo̝/

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

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
tree round section
Synonym: torada
round slice of fish
Synonym: roda

Derived terms

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

(architecture, geometry) torus

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “toro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
“toro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “toro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “toro (xeral)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “toro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

[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

first-person singular present indicative of torar

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Noun

tóro

bull, ox

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtoro/

Noun

toro (plural tori)

(geometry, architecture) torus

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Classical Latin taurus, from Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of tauro, which is a learned borrowing.

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

bull (uncastrated adult male bovine)
Hypernym: bovino
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 22–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
  Qual è quel toro che si slaccia in quella / c’ ha ricevuto già ’l colpo mortale, / che gir non sa, ma qua e là saltella […]
  Just like a bull who breaks free, after having already received the fatal blow, cannot escape, and just jumps around […]
- 1475, Angelo Poliziano, “Libro I”, in Stanze de messer Angelo Poliziano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici‎, Turin, section 66, lines 3–4; collected in Poemetti italiani, volume 1, publ. Michel Angelo Morano, 1797, page 63:
  […] il pastor, a cui il fier lupo ha tolto / Il più bel toro del cornuto armento
  […] the shepherd, from whom the fierce wolf has taken the best bull of the horned herd
(figurative) bull (large, strong man; also, a virile man)
(astronomy) Alternative letter-case form of Toro: Taurus (constellation of the Zodiac)
(astrology) Alternative letter-case form of Toro: Taurus (Zodiac sign)

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Etymology 2

Semantic loan from English bull.

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

(finance, uncommon) bull (investor who buys in anticipation of a rise in prices)
Synonym: rialzista

Antonyms: orso, ribassista

Hypernym: investitore

Etymology 3

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin torus.

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

(architecture) torus
Hypernym: modanatura

Holonym: colonna
(mathematics, geometry) torus
Hypernyms: superficie, solido
(botany) torus, receptacle
Synonym: ricettacolo

Holonym: peduncolo
(botany) torus (thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit)
Holonym: xilema
(literary, law, obsolete) marriage bed
Synonym: talamo
1. (loosely, rare) bed
  Synonym: letto
2. (figurative, rare) bed of torment
(law, obsolete) right to marital fidelity

Derived terms

toroide

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Etymology 4

Back-formation from torio (“thorium”)

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

(physics, uncountable) thoron (Radon-220, an isotope of radon)

References

toro¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
toro² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
toro³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
“toro”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 21 toi–z, UTET, 2002, page 62

Anagrams

orto, orto-, roto, rotò

Romanization

toro

Rōmaji transcription of とろ

Noun

toro

otter

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɔ̀ɾɔ̌ꜜ/

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

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including baba, guka, gũtũ, mũguĩ, mũtwe, nyamũ, ruo, rũhĩ (pl. hĩ), rũkũ (pl. ngũ), taata (“my aunt”), ũta (pl. mota), ũthiũ (pl. mothiũ), and so on.^[1]

Noun

toro class 14 (plural matoro)^[2]

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.

Noun

torō

dative/ablative singular of torus

References

toro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuzuq.

Verb

toro

to show
to point out, indicate

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	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
Goal (Relative)	i-form: --

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

Numeral

toro

three

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Etymology 1

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ɾu/

Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

tree ring
torus (three dimensional shape)

Etymology 2

Verb

toro

first-person singular present indicative of torar

Etymology

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

Noun

toro (plural ndoro)

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)‎ (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN

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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)

bull

Derived terms

a toro pasado
coger el toro por los cuernos; tomar el toro por los cuernos
corrida de toros
echar la capa al toro
en los cuernos del toro
hasta el rabo, todo es toro
hierba del toro
pillar el toro
plaza de toros
rana toro
torear (verb)
torero m
toro bravo
toro de fuego
toro de lidia
toro de muerte
toro de puntas
toro de ronda
toro del aguardiente
toro embolado
toro mecánico

Related terms

taurino

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)

(geometry, architecture) torus

Etymology 3

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

(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

Anagrams

orto, otro, roto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo/ [ˈt̪oː.ɾo]
Rhymes: -oɾo
Syllabification: to‧ro

Noun

toro (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜓ)

bull

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.r̪o/

Verb

toro

(intransitive) to sit

Conjugation

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

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References

Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tò.ɾò/

Verb

tòrò

to be settled, to be at peace
Synonym: rójú

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

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

[3] [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

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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.

[5] [2]
“toro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 461. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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