tor

See also Tor, tör, tør, tőr, -tor, tor-, and TOR

English

WOTD – 19 February 2013    

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /tɔɹ/
• (UK) IPA: /tɔː(ɹ)/

Etymology 1

Noun

tor (plural tors)

1. Alternative form of tore ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

Etymology 2

From Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor (“a high rock, lofty hill, tower”), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor (“hill”); ultimately from Latin turris (“high structure”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (turris), τύρσις (týrsis, “tower”), of non-Indo-European origin. Cognate with Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr, Welsh tŵr, Irish torr, French tor, and Romansch tor/tur/tuor; the first four are from Proto-Celtic (from Latin turris), the last two directly from Latin turris (from Ancient Greek τύρρις (turris) and τύρσις (tursis)). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. See also tower.

Noun

tor (plural tors)

1. A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.
2. (South-West England) A hill.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:

     Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.

   • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 9:

     The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.

   • 2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night, Signet Eclipse (2008), ISBN 9780451223425, page 242:

     She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors—and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.

3. (UK, dialect) A tower; a turret.

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Translations

outcrop of rock

• Finnish: rakka (fi)

hill — see hill

Anagrams

• ort, OTR, rot, RTO, TRO

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtoːr/

Noun

tor m

1. (anatomy) belly, stomach, abdomen

Synonyms

• kof

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /toːr/, [tˢoːˀɐ̯]

Verb

tor

1. present of to

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔr
• IPA: /tɔr/

Noun

tor m (plural torren, diminutive torretje)

1. beetle

Synonyms

• kever

Derived terms

• boktor
• kniptor
• meeltor
• schildpadtor
• watertor

Anagrams

• rot

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtor/

Etymology 1

Noun

tor (plural torok)

1. meal, repast (ceremonial meal held after funerals)

   halotti tor

   funeral feast

   disznótor

   meal on pig-killing day

Declension

declension of tor singular plural nominative tor torok accusative tort torokat dative tornak toroknak instrumental torral torokkal causal-final torért torokért translative torrá torokká terminative torig torokig essive-formal torként torokként essive-modal - - inessive torban torokban superessive toron torokon adessive tornál toroknál illative torba torokba sublative torra torokra allative torhoz torokhoz elative torból torokból delative torról torokról ablative tortól toroktól

possessives of tor possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. torom toraim 2nd person sing. torod toraid 3rd person sing. tora torai 1st person plural torunk toraink 2nd person plural torotok toraitok 3rd person plural toruk toraik

Etymology 2

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thōrax, “breastplate, chest”), created during the Hungarian language reform taking place in the 18th-19th centuries.

Noun

tor (plural torok)

1. (zoology) thorax (of an arthropod)

Declension

Same as above.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [t̪ˠɔɾˠ]

Noun

tor m (genitive toir, nominative plural toir)

1. bush, shrub
2. head (of cabbage)

Declension

Declension of tor

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative tor toir Vocative a thoir a thora Genitive toir tor Dative tor toir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an tor na toir Genitive an toir na dtor Dative leis an tor don tor leis na toir

Synonyms

• (bush, shrub): tom
• (head): ceann

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tor	thor	dtor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Lojban

Rafsi

tor

1. rafsi of tordu.

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin turris.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Noun

tor f (oblique plural tors, nominative singular tor, nominative plural tors)

1. tower

Descendants

• French: tour

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [t̪ɔr]

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Etymology 1

Noun

tor m

1. track, course, path
2. rail track
3. lane (a part of a sports track)
4. trajectory

Declension

    declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	tory
genitive	toru	torów
dative	torowi	torom
accusative	tor	tory
instrumental	torem	torami
locative	torze	torach
vocative	torze	tory

Etymology 2

From Latin thorium, from Old Scandinavian Thorr

Noun

tor m

1. thorium

Declension

    declension of tor

	singular only
nominative	tor
genitive	toru
dative	torowi
accusative	tor
instrumental	torem
locative	torze
vocative	torze

Etymology 3

Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist

Noun

tor m (symbol Tr)

1. torr

Declension

    declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	tory
genitive	tora	torów
dative	torowi	torom
accusative	tora	tory
instrumental	torem	torami
locative	torze	torach
vocative	torze	tory

Etymology 4

Noun

tor

1. Genitive plural of tora

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) tur
• (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) tuor

Etymology

From Latin turris.

Noun

tor m (plural tors)

1. (Surmiran) tower

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *torъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tôːr/

Noun

tȏr m (Cyrillic spelling то̑р)

1. corral, cote

Declension

    declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tȏr	tòrovi
genitive	tora	torova
dative	toru	torovima
accusative	tor	torove
vocative	toru	torovi
locative	toru	torovima
instrumental	torom	torovima

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Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic	тор‍
Roman	tor‍
Perso-Arabic	‍‍

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *d(i)ār

Adjective

tor

1. narrow, tight

Noun

tor (plural torlar)

1. string

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Venetian

Verb

tor (transitive)

1. To take
2. To get

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA: [toɾ], X-SAMPA: [to4]

Noun

tor (plural tors)

1. bull

Declension

declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	tors
genitive	tora	toras
dative	tore	tores
accusative	tori	toris
predicative	toru	torus
vocative	o tor!	o tors!

Synonyms

• hibub

Antonyms

• kun
• jibub