tor

See also: Tor, TOR, tör, tőr, tor-, -tor, and Appendix:Variations of "tor"

English

WOTD – 19 February 2013

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/
• Homophones: tore, torr (all accents); tour (pour-poor merger); taw (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

Adjective

tor ‎(comparative more tor, superlative most tor)

1. Alternative form of tore ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

Etymology 2

From Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor ‎(“a high rock, lofty hill, tower”), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor ‎(“hill”); ultimately from Latin turris ‎(“high structure”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις ‎(túrrhis), τύρσις ‎(túrsis, “tower”), of non-Indo-European origin. Cognate with Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr, Welsh tŵr, Irish torr, French tor, and Romansch tor/tur/tuor; the first four are from Proto-Celtic (from Latin turris), the last two directly from Latin turris (from Ancient Greek τύρρις ‎(túrrhis) and τύρσις ‎(túrsis)). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. See also tower.

Noun

tor ‎(plural tors)

1. A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.
2. (South-West England) A hill.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:

     Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.

   • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 9:

     The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.

   • 2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night, Signet Eclipse (2008), ISBN 9780451223425, page 242:

     She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors—and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.

3. (Britain, dialect) A tower; a turret.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ray to this entry?)

Translations

outcrop of rock

• Finnish: rakka (fi)

• Spanish: risco (es) m

hill — see hill

Anagrams

• ort, OTR, rot, RTO, TRO

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːr/

Noun

tor m ‎(plural torioù, collective toroù)

1. (anatomy) belly, stomach, abdomen

Synonyms

• kof

Mutation

  Mutation of tor  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
singular	tor	dor	zor	unchanged	unchanged
plural	torioù	dorioù	zorioù	unchanged	unchanged

Noun

tor

1. Hard mutation of dor.

Mutation

  Mutation of tor  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
singular	dor	zor	unchanged	tor	tor
plural	dorioù	zorioù	unchanged	torioù	torioù

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [tˢoːˀɐ̯]

Verb

tor

1. present tense of to

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔr
• IPA^(key): /tɔr/

Noun

tor m ‎(plural torren, diminutive torretje n)

1. beetle

Synonyms

• kever

Derived terms

• boktor
• kniptor
• meeltor
• schildpadtor
• watertor

Anagrams

• rot

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtor]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: tor

Etymology 1

Noun

tor ‎(plural torok)

1. meal, repast (ceremonial meal held after funerals)

   halotti tor

   funeral feast

   disznótor

   meal on pig-killing day

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tor	torok
accusative	tort	torokat
dative	tornak	toroknak
instrumental	torral	torokkal
causal-final	torért	torokért
translative	torrá	torokká
terminative	torig	torokig
essive-formal	torként	torokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	torban	torokban
superessive	toron	torokon
adessive	tornál	toroknál
illative	torba	torokba
sublative	torra	torokra
allative	torhoz	torokhoz
elative	torból	torokból
delative	torról	torokról
ablative	tortól	toroktól

Possessive forms of tor
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	torom	toraim
2nd person sing.	torod	toraid
3rd person sing.	tora	torai
1st person plural	torunk	toraink
2nd person plural	torotok	toraitok
3rd person plural	toruk	toraik

Etymology 2

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ ‎(thṓrax, “breastplate, chest”), created during the Hungarian language reform which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

Noun

tor ‎(plural torok)

1. (zoology) thorax (of an arthropod)

Declension

Same as above.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t̪ˠɔɾˠ]

Noun

tor m ‎(genitive singular toir, nominative plural toir)

1. bush, shrub
2. head (of cabbage)

Declension

Declension of tor

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative tor toir Vocative a thoir a thora Genitive toir tor Dative tor toir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an tor na toir Genitive an toir na dtor Dative leis an tor don tor leis na toir

Synonyms

• (bush, shrub): tom
• (head): ceann

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tor	thor	dtor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Lojban

Rafsi

tor

1. rafsi of tordu.

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Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Etymology 1

From Latin turris.

Noun

tor f ‎(oblique plural tors, nominative singular tor, nominative plural tors)

1. tower

Descendants

• French: tour

Etymology 2

From Latin taurus.

Noun

tor m ‎(oblique plural tors, nominative singular tors, nominative plural tor)

1. bull (bovine)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t̪ɔr]

• audio

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *torъ, from *terti.

Noun

tor m inan

1. track, course, path
2. rail track
3. lane (a part of a sports track)
4. trajectory

Declension

declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	tory
genitive	toru	torów
dative	torowi	torom
accusative	tor	tory
instrumental	torem	torami
locative	torze	torach
vocative	torze	tory

Derived terms

• (verb) torować
• (nouns) torowiec, torowisko
• (adjective) torowy

Etymology 2

From Latin thorium, from Old Scandinavian Thorr

Noun

Chemical element
Th	Previous: aktyn (Ac)
	Next: protaktyn (Pa)

tor m inan

1. thorium

Declension

declension of tor

	singular
nominative	tor
genitive	toru
dative	torowi
accusative	tor
instrumental	torem
locative	torze
vocative	torze

Etymology 3

Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist

Noun

tor m ‎(symbol Tr)

1. torr

Declension

declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	tory
genitive	tora	torów
dative	torowi	torom
accusative	tora	tory
instrumental	torem	torami
locative	torze	torach
vocative	torze	tory

Etymology 4

Noun

tor

1. Genitive plural of tora

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) tur
• (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) tuor

Etymology

From Latin turris.

Noun

tor m (plural tors)

1. (Surmiran) tower

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *torъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tôːr/

Noun

tȏr m ‎(Cyrillic spelling то̑р)

1. corral, cote

Declension

Declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tȏr	tòrovi
genitive	tora	torova
dative	toru	torovima
accusative	tor	torove
vocative	toru	torovi
locative	toru	torovima
instrumental	torom	torovima

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Turkish

Etymology

From West Old Turkic tor ("young, young animal, callow, immature, timid"), from Proto-Turkic *tōr- ‎(“a kind of young animal”), which, according to the controversial Altaic hypothesis, is possibly derived from Proto-Altaic *t`ṓrV ‎(“young animal”). Related to toy.

Noun

tor ‎(definite accusative toru, plural torlar)

1. young
2. novice
3. whelp
4. beginner
5. recruit

Alternative forms

1. toru
2. toy

References

• „tor“ in the dictionary of the Turkish language (TDK)
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “toraman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “torun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “torlak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic	тор‍
Roman	tor‍
Perso-Arabic	‍‍

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *d(i)ār

Adjective

tor

1. narrow, tight

Noun

tor ‎(plural torlar)

1. string

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Venetian

Verb

tor

1. (transitive) to take
2. (transitive) to get

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [toɾ]

Noun

tor ‎(plural tors)

1. bull

Declension

declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	tors
genitive	tora	toras
dative	tore	tores
accusative	tori	toris
predicative	toru	torus
vocative	o tor!	o tors!

Synonyms

• hibub

Antonyms

• kun
• jibub

Derived terms

• torül ‎(“bull calf, male calf”)

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• torra (second-person singular imperative)
• torriff (colloquial, third-person singular present/future)
• torrith (colloquial, third-person singular present/future)
• tyr (literary, third-person singular present/future)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔr/

Verb

tor

1. (literary) third-person singular present / future of torri
2. (literary) second-person singular imperative of torri

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tor	dor	nhor	thor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.