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4-letter words (3 found)

ROOT,ROTO,TORO,

3-letter words (7 found)

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

2-letter words (3 found)

OO,OR,TO,

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All 4 letters words made out of toro

toro otro troo rtoo orto roto toor otor toor otor ootr ootr troo rtoo toro otro roto orto orot root oort oort root orot

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Definitions and meaning of toro

toro

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

  • Hyphenation: to‧ro
  • IPA(key): /ˈtoɾo/, [ˈto.ɾo]

Noun

tóro

  1. bull
    Synonym: mangsad

Related terms

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, Valencian) [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, 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.

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 borrowing, but from the same source: Latin torus.

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

  • “toro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “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 Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “toro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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 torusFrench toreGerman TorusItalian toroRussian 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. ), 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

Related terms

Mansaka

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

Numeral

toro

  1. three

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

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

  • orto, otro, roto

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus. Doublet of Tauro.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈtoɾo/, [ˈto.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -oɾo
  • Syllabification: to‧ro

Noun

toro (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜓ)

  1. bull

Related terms

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

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

Etymology

From (to arrange; to align) +‎

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tò.ɾò/

Verb

tòrò

  1. to be settled, to be at peace
    Synonym: rójú

Source: wiktionary.org