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4-letter words (3 found)

ROOT,ROTO,TORO,

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OOR,OOT,ORT,ROO,ROT,TOO,TOR,

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Definitions and meaning of toro

toro

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

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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]

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

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

Derived terms

  • torejar
  • toro mecànic

References

Further reading

  • “toro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “toro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “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

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
  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

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)

  2. bull (uncastrated adult male bovine)
    Hypernym: bovino
  3. (figurative) bull (large, strong man; also, a virile man)
  5. (astronomy) alternative letter-case form of Toro: Taurus (constellation of the Zodiac)
  7. (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)

  1. (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)

  2. (architecture) torus
    Hypernym: modanatura
    Holonym: colonna
  4. (mathematics, geometry) torus
    Hypernyms: superficie, solido
  6. (botany) torus, receptacle
    Synonym: ricettacolo
    Holonym: peduncolo
  8. (botany) torus (thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit)
    Holonym: xilema
  10. (literary, law, obsolete) marriage bed
    Synonym: talamo
    1. (loosely, rare) bed
      Synonym: letto
    2. (figurative, rare) bed of torment
  11. (law, obsolete) right to marital fidelity
Derived terms
  • toroide
Related terms
See also

Etymology 4

Back-formation from torio (“thorium”)

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

  1. (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

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

References

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

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Mansaka

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

Numeral

toro

  1. three

Maori

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

toro

  1. toro (Myrsine salicina, a small native New Zealand tree.
  2. alternative form of toru
Derived terms
  • akatorotoro
  • toropapa

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *tolo (“throw”).

Verb

toro (passive toroa or torohia or torona)(transitive)

  1. to stretch out, to extend
  2. to visit, to call on
  3. to scout out, to reconnoitre, to probe
Derived terms
  • mātoro
  • torotoro
  • whakatoro

Noun

toro

  1. extension
  2. scout
  3. probe

Further reading

  • “toro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

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

Sora

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoːroː/

Noun

toro

  1. to groan, to mewl

Derived terms

  • torod ("moan during sleep")
  • torodum ("unconsciously words during sleep whimper")

References

  • Ramamurti, R. S. (1933). Sora–English Dictionary. Delhi: Mittal Publication.

Spanish

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
Related terms
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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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
  2. (slang, dated) stud; hunk; macho man
  3. (slang, dated) penis
    Synonyms: uten, titi
  4. (slang, dated) live sex show; pay-per-view sex

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Further reading

  • “toro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 145

West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪o.r̪o/

Verb

toro

  1. (intransitive) to sit

Conjugation

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[3], 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

Source: wiktionary.org