taurus

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin taurus (“bull”)

Noun

taurus

1. Used attributively as a species epithet

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros), Old Prussian tauris, Proto-Germanic *steuraz. Possibly of Semitic origin, borrowed into Semitic, or both from a separate, unknown source; confer Proto-Semitic *θawr-, compare Arabic ثور‎, Hebrew שור‎. Related to English steer.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtau̯.rus/, [ˈtau̯.rʊs]

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Noun

taurus m (genitive taurī); second declension

1. a bull, steer
2. an instrument of torture, in the shape of a bull
3. a small bird that sounds like the lowing of oxen, possibly the bittern
4. a kind of beetle
5. (anatomy) the perineum

References

• taurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• taurus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• taurus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• taurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• taurus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• taurus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• taurus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “toro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

Noun

taurus m

1. accusative plural form of taurs