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tiro itro trio rtio irto rito tior itor toir otir iotr oitr troi rtoi tori otri roti orti irot riot iort oirt roit orit

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Definitions and meaning of tiro

tiro

Noun

tiro (plural tiros or tiroes)

1. Alternative spelling of tyro; a newly recruited soldier.

Anagrams

• Tori, Troi, riot, roti, tori, trio

Asturian

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tiro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɾo/, [t̪i.ɾo̞]

Noun

tiro inan

1. shot

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• "tiro" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “tiro” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈti.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈti.ɾo]

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish tiro, from tirar (“shoot, throw”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear away, rip or snatch off, pull violently, tug”), from Proto-Indo-European *derə- (“to tear, tear apart”).

Verb

tiro

1. (dated) to shoot (fire a weapon)
2. (dated) to shoot a goal

Synonyms

• tira

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested since 1370; back-formation from tirar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾo̝/

Noun

tiro m (plural tiros)

1. shot, throw, cast
2. gunshot
3. shooting
4. flue of a chimney
5. ascending current of air of a chimney which evacuates the smoke caused by combustion

Related terms

• tirada
• tirar

References

• “tiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tyros” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ro/
• Rhymes: -iro
• Hyphenation: tì‧ro

Etymology 1

From tirare (“to pull”).

Noun

tiro m (plural tiri)

1. pull, tug, draught/draft
2. throw, cast

   Synonym: lancio

3. (sports) shooting
4. (sports) shot, throw

   Synonyms: colpo, sparo, portata

5. shot, shooting, firing, range, reach (of weapons)

   Synonym: fuoco

6. (military) fire

   Synonym: scherzo

7. trick, turn

   Synonym: boccata

8. puff (of a cigarette)

   Synonym: sniffata

9. sniff (of a drug)

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirare

Further reading

• tiro in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• tiro in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• tiro in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• tiro in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

Anagrams

• irto, orti, otri, rito, roti, tori, trio

Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan 𐌕𐌉𐌓𐌏 (tiro).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.roː/, [ˈt̪iːroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ro/, [ˈt̪iːro]
• Homophone: Tīrō

Noun

tīrō m (genitive tīrōnis); third declension

1. (Roman military) recruit
2. apprentice (one that is young in age)
3. beginner, novice, tyro, neophyte, freshman, greenhorn

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Catalan: tiró (learned)
• → Italian: tirone (learned)

References

• “tiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tiro 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)
• tiro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “tiro”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tiro”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian and Malay tinjau.

Verb

tiro

1. to observe
2. to inspect

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾu/
• Homophone: Tiro
• Hyphenation: ti‧ro

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tirar (“to remove”).

Noun

tiro m (plural tiros)

1. the act of shooting

   Synonym: disparo

2. a fired shot

   Holonyms: fogo, rajada

3. shooting firearms as a sport

   Synonym: tiro ao alvo

4. (sports, figurative) a very strong kick, throw or hit
5. (South Brazil) the act of throwing bolas or a lasso towards an animal
6. (soccer) free kick (kick in which a player may kick the ball without interference)

Derived terms

Related terms

• tirar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Further reading

• “tiro” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “tiro” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “tiro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tiro” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “tiro” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “tiro” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾo/ [ˈt̪i.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: ti‧ro

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tirar (“to throw”).

Noun

tiro m (plural tiros)

1. throw (the act of throwing something)

   Synonym: lanzamiento

2. shot; gunshot (the result of launching a projectile or bullet)

   Synonyms: disparo, descarga

   Hyponyms: balazo, pistoletazo

3. range (the distance from a person or sensor to an object)

   Synonym: alcance

   a tiro ― in range

4. (sports) shooting (the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon)

   tiro con arco ― archery

5. (sports) shot (the act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal)

   Synonyms: disparo, lanzamiento, plano

6. team (a set of draught animals)
7. intake of air in a space
8. inseam (the seam of a trouser up the inside of the leg)
9. fix (dose of a drug)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Further reading

• “tiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.ɾo]

Noun

tiro

1. the vagina

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tī.ɾō/

Verb

tiro

1. (intransitive) to limp on one leg

Derived terms

• atiro (“a person who limps”)

Source: wiktionary.org