taurus

See also: Taurus

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin taurus (“bull”)

Noun

taurus

1. Used attributively as a species epithet

Derived terms

• Taurus
• Bos taurus
• Bos primigenius taurus

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Latin

taurus (a bull)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros), Old Prussian tauris, Proto-Germanic *steuraz. Possibly of Semitic origin, borrowed into Semitic, or both from a separate, unknown source; confer Proto-Semitic *θawr-, compare Arabic ثور‏.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtau̯.rus/, [ˈtau̯.rʊs]

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Noun

taurus m (genitive taurī); second declension

1. a bull, steer
2. an instrument of torture, in the shape of a bull
3. a small bird that sounds like the lowing of oxen, possibly the bittern
4. a kind of beetle
5. (anatomy) the perineum

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	taurus	taurī
genitive	taurī	taurōrum
dative	taurō	taurīs
accusative	taurum	taurōs
ablative	taurō	taurīs
vocative	taure	taurī

Hypernyms

• bōs

Derived terms

Terms derived from taurus

• taura
• taureus
• tauricornis
• taurifer
• tauriformis

• taurigenus
• taurīnus
• taurobolicus
• taurobolīnus
• taurobolior

• taurocenta
• taurophthalmon
• taurulus
• Taurus

Descendants

• Aromanian: tavru
• Asturian: toru
• Catalan: toro
• Corsican: toru
• English: Taurus
• French: taureau
• Friulian: taur
• Galician: touro
• Ido: tauro
• Interlingua: tauro
• Italian: toro

• Navajo: dóola
• Norman: touothé
• Occitan: taur
• Old French: tor
• Portuguese: touro
• Romanian: taur
• Romansh: taur
• Sardinian: trau
• Sicilian: tàuru, tàvuru
• Spanish: toro
• Venetian: toro
• Walloon: torea

See also

• vacca

References

• taurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• taurus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “taurus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “taurus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• taurus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[1]
• taurus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• taurus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “toro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2

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Latvian

Noun

taurus m

1. accusative plural form of taurs