toro

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

• Root, Toor, root, roto, roto-, troo

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

Related terms

• torero
• toril

 

See also

• baka

 

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɔ.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɔ.ɾo]

• Audio:

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Noun

toro m (plural toros)

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

Derived terms

• torejar
• toro mecànic

Further reading

• “toro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “toro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “toro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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

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. 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)

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

• tora
• torada
• torar

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. (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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoro/

Noun

toro (plural tori)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

Italian

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

Related terms

• taurino
• toreare
• torello
• torero
• toroidale

See also

• bue
• vacca
• vitello
• zodiacale

Anagrams

• orto, orto-, roto, rotò

Japanese

Romanization

toro

1. Rōmaji transcription of とろ

Karitiâna

Noun

toro

1. otter

Kikuyu

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.

Noun

toro class 14 (plural matoro)

1. sleep

Latin

Noun

torō

1. 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)

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuzuq.

Verb

toro

1. to show
2. to point out, indicate

Related terms

	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

toro

Etymology 1

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ɾu/

• 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

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

• 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)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

See also

• Toro (geometría) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• Toro (arquitectura) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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

• “toro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Anagrams

• orto, otro, roto

Tagalog

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)

1. bull

Related terms

• korida de toros
• Tawro
• toreador
• torero
• torete

 

See also

• baka

Further reading

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

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.r̪o/

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

• IPA^(key): /tò.ɾò/

Verb

tòrò

1. to be settled, to be at peace

   Synonym: rójú