aurochs

English

Augsburg depiction of an aurochs.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aurochs, an early variant of Auerochse, from Middle High German ūrochse (“aurochs”), from Old High German ūrohso (“aurochs”), a compound consisting of ūro (“aurochs”) (from Proto-Germanic *ūraz, *ūrô (“aurochs”)) + ohso (“ox”). Akin to Old English ūr (“aurochs”), Old Norse úrr (“aurochs”), Middle Low German ūrosse (“aurochs”), Old English oxa (“ox”). More at ox.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊɹɒks/, /ˈɔːɹɒks/

Noun

aurochs (plural aurochs or aurochses or aurochsen)

1. An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.
2. (zoology) The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europæus).

Translations

Bos primigenius

• Armenian: վայրի ցուլ (vayri cʻul), ցլավայրի (hy) (cʻlavayri), տուր (hy) (tur)
• Catalan: ur (ca) m
• Czech: pratur (cs) m
• Dutch: oeros (nl)
• Faroese: frumneyt n
• Finnish: alkuhärkä (fi)
• French: aurochs (fr) m
• German: Auerochse (de), Ur (de) m
• Irish: áracs m
• Italian: uro m
• Latin: ūrus m
• Latvian: taurs m
• Persian: ارکس (oroks)
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• Polish: tur (pl)
• Portuguese: uro (pt) m, uroque m, auroque (pt) m
• Romanian: bour (ro) m
• Russian: тур (ru) m (tur)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tur m

• Spanish: uro (es) m
• Sudovian: tauras m
• Swedish: uroxe (sv) c
• Tagalog: uro
• Vietnamese: bò rừng châu Âu, bò Tur
• Welsh: cynfual

European bison — see European bison

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• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ჯიხვი (ka) (ǯixvi)
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References

• “aurochs”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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