tauro
Appearance
Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French taureau, from Latin taurus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tauro (plural tauri)
See also
[edit]Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]tauro (plural tauros)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Classical Latin taurus, from Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of toro, which is inherited.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tauro m (plural tauri) (poetic)
- Synonym of toro:
- bull
- mid 1370s, Giovanni Boccaccio, chapter 5, in Esposizioni sopra la Commedia, Stavvi Minos orribilmente, e ringhia; republished as Il comento sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri di Giovanni Boccaccio, volume 2, Florence: Ig[nazio] Moutier, 1831, page 7:
- quivi essendosi Giove trasformato in un tauro bianchissimo e bello, […]
- Jupiter, having transformed into a beautiful white bull, […]
- (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)
- 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory][1], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Ora era onde ’l salir non volea storpio; / ché ’l sole avëa il cerchio di merigge / lasciato al Tauro e la notte a lo Scorpio:
- The time was such that there needed not be hesitation in the ascent; for the sun had left the meridian circle to the Taurus, and the night to the Scorpio.
- (astrology) Taurus (zodiac sign)
- 1540, Alessandro Piccolomini, “Del nascimento e cadimento dei segni nella sfera retta”, Libro terzo [Third book], in Della sfera del mondo[3], Venice: Al segno del Pozzo, page 30:
- il Tauro e l’Aquario ſono vgualmente lontani dal punto de l’equinottio de la Primauera
- [il Tauro e l'Acquario sono ugualmente lontani dal punto dell'equinozio della primavera]
- Taurus and Aquarius are equally distant from the point of the Spring Equinox
- bull
References
[edit]- tauro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- “tauro”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 20 squi–tog, UTET, 2000, page 767
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]taurō
Lithuanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]taũro
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