tauromaquia
Galician
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros) "bull" + μάχη (mákhē) "battle", from μάχομαι (mákhomai) "I do battle".
Pronunciation
Noun
tauromaquia f (uncountable)
Synonyms
- toureo m
Antonyms
Related terms
Portuguese
Noun
tauromaquia f (plural tauromaquias)
- bullfighting (performance art in which a matador manipulates and kills a bull)
Synonyms
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle”), from μάχομαι (mákhomai, “I do battle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tauromaquia f (uncountable)
- (bullfighting) tauromachy, bullfighting
- Synonym: toreo
Antonyms
Related terms
Further reading
- “tauromaquia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Galician terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician uncountable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Bullfighting
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish uncountable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Bullfighting