taurus

See also: Taurus

Latin

Alternative forms

• (archaic) tarvus, tarvos

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; compare Proto-Semitic *ṯawr-, Arabic ثور, Hebrew שור. Related to English steer.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtau̯.rus/, [ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtau̯.rus/, [ˈt̪äːu̯rus]

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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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

• taura
• taureus
• tauricornis
• taurifer
• tauriformis
• taurigenus
• taurobolicus
• taurobolior
• taurobolīnus
• taurocenta
• taurophthalmon
• taurulus
• Taurus
• taurīnus

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: tavru
• Asturian: toru
• Catalan: toro
• Corsican: toru
• → English: Taurus
• French: taureau
• Friulian: taur
• Galician: touro
• Ido: tauro
• Interlingua: tauro
• Italian: toro
• Norman: touothé
• Occitan: taur
• Old French: tor

• Portuguese: touro
• Romanian: taur
• Romansch: taur
• Sardinian: trau
• Sicilian: tàuru, tàvuru
• Spanish: toro
  • → Navajo: dóola
  • → Northern Tepehuan: tuúru
  • → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: toro
  • → Southeastern Tepehuan: tuur
  • → Taos: tùluʼúna
  • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: turo
• 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
• taurus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• taurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “toro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

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Latvian

Noun

taurus m

1. (deprecated template usage) accusative plural form of taurs