toro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori.

Anagrams

• Root, Toor, root, roto, roto-, troo

Etymology

From Latin taurus. Compare Old Catalan and Occitan taur.

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. bull
2. bittern

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo̝/

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. tree trunk
   • 1277, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez (ed.), 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

   Synonym: tora

2. tree round section

   Synonym: torada

3. round slice of fish

   Synonym: roda

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. (architecture, geometry) torus

References

• “toro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “toro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “toro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “toro (xeral)” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “toro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Noun

tóro

1. bull, ox

Etymology

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

Noun

toro (plural tori)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔro

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

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

Anagrams

• orto, roto, rotò

Romanization

toro

1. Rōmaji transcription of とろ

Noun

toro

1. 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]

1. sleep

References

Noun

torō

1. dative singular of torus
2. ablative singular of torus

References

• toro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Etymology

Common Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian tunjuk.

Verb

toro

1. to show
2. to point out, indicate

Etymology

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ɾu/

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.ɾo/
• Rhymes: -oɾo

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Anagrams

• orto, otro, roto