matador
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish matador (“killer”). Used in the English language as title for a bullfighter, however referred to as a torero in Spain.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈma.tə.dɔː/[1]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmæ.tə.dɔɹ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ætədɔː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: mat‧a‧dor
Noun
[edit]matador (plural matadors or matadores)
- (bullfighting) The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight.
- 1962, Arthur Miller, “The Bored and the Violent”, in Herbert Gold, editor, First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties[1], New York: Dial, published 1963, page 181:
- […] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield.
- 1968, James A. Michener, “Sevilla”, in Iberia, New York, NY: Dial Press, published 2015, →ISBN, page 317:
- The second is La Macarena, named after an Arabian princess, and she was preferred by another great matador, Joselito, and to see her leave her parish church of San Gil at one in the morning of Good Friday or return later in the day is held by many Sevillanos to be the most important thing that can happen during Holy Week.
- 1985 June 9, William Kennedy, “The Last Ole”, in The New York Times[2]:
- Hemingway's subject for the epilogue was the mano a mano (or hand-to-hand, a duel) between Spain's two leading matadors, Luis Miguel Dominguin and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordonez.
- (uncountable) A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.
- (card games) The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat.
- (card games) One of the three chief cards in ombre and quadrille.
Translations
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “matador”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]matador m anim (female equivalent matadorka)
- (bullfighting) matador (the person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight)
- 1930, Karel Čapek, Výlet do Španěl:
- Bledý matador jde znovu s mečem a muletou zabíjet podle pravidel hry; avšak býk se zaberanil a stojí se vztyčenou hlavou, se šíjí zježenou banderillami a jakoby přehozenou pláštěm krve.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | matador | matadoři |
genitive | matadora | matadorů |
dative | matadorovi, matadoru | matadorům |
accusative | matadora | matadory |
vocative | matadore | matadoři |
locative | matadorovi, matadoru | matadorech |
instrumental | matadorem | matadory |
Further reading
[edit]- “matador”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “matador”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
Noun
[edit]matador c (singular definite matadoren, plural indefinite matadorer)
Declension
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | matador | matadoren | matadorer | matadorerne |
genitive | matadors | matadorens | matadorers | matadorernes |
Proper noun
[edit]matador
- Monopoly (board game)
References
[edit]- “matador” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish matador.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]matador m (plural matadors)
Further reading
[edit]- “matador”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish matador.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]matador m pers
- matador (the person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | matador | matadorzy/matadory (deprecative) |
genitive | matadora | matadorów |
dative | matadorowi | matadorom |
accusative | matadora | matadorów |
instrumental | matadorem | matadorami |
locative | matadorze | matadorach |
vocative | matadorze | matadorzy |
Further reading
[edit]- matador in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- matador in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]matador (feminine matadora, masculine plural matadores, feminine plural matadoras)
- which kills
- (figurative) seductive
- olhar matador ― seductive look
Noun
[edit]matador m (plural matadores, feminine matadora, feminine plural matadoras)
- killer (someone who kills)
Further reading
[edit]- “matador”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]matador m (plural matadori)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | matador | matadorul | matadori | matadorii | |
genitive-dative | matador | matadorului | matadori | matadorilor | |
vocative | matadorule | matadorilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, matar (“kill”) + -dor (agent suffix). May correspond to Latin mactātōrem (“slayer, killer, slaughterer”), but the origin of the base verb matar is disputed.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -oɾ
Noun
[edit]matador m (plural matadores, feminine matadora, feminine plural matadoras)
- a slaughterer, a killer
- Synonym: asesino
- (bullfighting) matador, a featured bullfighter at a bullfight event
- Synonym: diestro
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “matador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]matador c
- (bullfighting) a matador
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- matador in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- matador in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- matador in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish matador.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /mataˈdoɾ/ [mɐ.t̪ɐˈd̪oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: ma‧ta‧dor
Noun
[edit]matador (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜆᜇᜓᜇ᜔)
- butcher
- Synonyms: matadero, magkakarne
- (bullfighting) matador; bullfighter
Further reading
[edit]- “matador”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
- “matador”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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