tore
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tô, IPA(key): /tɔː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) enPR: tôr, IPA(key): /toɹ/
- (Scotland) enPR: tōr, IPA(key): /toːɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōr, IPA(key): /to(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /toə/, /toː/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: tor (horse–hoarse merger); taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); tour (pour–poor merger)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.
Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tore (comparative more tore, superlative most tore)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
- (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
- (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore
- simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)
- 1661, George Whitehead, Edward Burroughs, The Son of Perdition Revealed […] [3], London, page 39:
- […] that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c […]
- 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 71:
- Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby […]
- 1999 May 11, Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 393:
- "Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper […]
Usage notes
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]See torus.
Noun
[edit]tore (plural tores)
- (architecture) Alternative form of torus
- (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
- The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.
Etymology 4
[edit]Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.
Noun
[edit]tore (uncountable)
- The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
- the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do
See also
[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat, comparative toredam, superlative kõige toredam)
Declension
[edit]Declension of tore (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | tore | toredad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | toreda | ||
genitive | toredate | ||
partitive | toredat | toredaid | |
illative | toredasse | toredatesse toredaisse | |
inessive | toredas | toredates toredais | |
elative | toredast | toredatest toredaist | |
allative | toredale | toredatele toredaile | |
adessive | toredal | toredatel toredail | |
ablative | toredalt | toredatelt toredailt | |
translative | toredaks | toredateks toredaiks | |
terminative | toredani | toredateni | |
essive | toredana | toredatena | |
abessive | toredata | toredateta | |
comitative | toredaga | toredatega |
French
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /tɔʁ/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: tord, tords, tores, tors, tort, torts (general), taure, taures (one pronunciation)
Noun
[edit]tore m (plural tores)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
tore on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore
- inflection of torar:
Kangean
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to Maori turou (“come; welcome”) and Madurese atore (“please”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: to‧re
Noun
[edit]tore
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]tore
Maori
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tore (“striked, streaked” – compare to Rarotongan tore, Tahitian tore),[1][2]
Verb
[edit]tore (passive torea)
Noun
[edit]tore
- strip, shred (of cloth etc)
- Synonym: hae
- stripe
- Synonym: ropi
- narrow light beam passing through a slit
Adjective
[edit]tore
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *tole (compare with Samoan toletole and Tongan tole)[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teli[2][3]
Noun
[edit]tore
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[2], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 480-1
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tore.2”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 158-9
Further reading
[edit]- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tore”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 513
- “tore” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Ngarrindjeri
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]tore
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore (present tense tør, past tense torde or turte, past participle tort or turt)
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse *þórr. See Norwegian Bokmål torden
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tore m or f (definite singular toren or tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)
Verb
[edit]tore (present tense torer, simple past toret, past participle toret)
Etymology 3
[edit]From Norwegian Bokmål tor. From Old Norse tóra. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk tore.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore
- (dialectal) to burn slightly
- Synonym: brenne svakt
References
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore (present tense torer or tør, past tense torde, supine tort)
- Alternative form of tora (“to dare”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Connected to Old Norse Þórr (“Tor, Thor”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tore f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)
- a thunder
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tore/tor)
- (impersonal, metereology) to thunder
- (intransitive, figurative) to rage
Alternative forms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]From Old Norse tóra (“to live life meazelly”).
Alternative forms
[edit]- torast (a-infinitive)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tore/tor)
- (intransitive, about fire) to burn weakly
References
[edit]- “tore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore
- inflection of torar:
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish torre. Displaced moog.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈtoɾe/ [ˈt̪oː.ɾɛ]
- Rhymes: -oɾe
- Syllabification: to‧re
Noun
[edit]tore (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜒ)
Coordinate terms
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hari | reyna | tore | obispo/alpil | kabayo | peon |
Further reading
[edit]- “tore”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Anagrams
[edit]Ternate
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tore
Conjugation
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | totore | fotore | mitore | |
2nd person | notore | nitore | ||
3rd person |
masculine | otore | itore yotore (archaic) | |
feminine | motore | |||
neuter | itore |
References
[edit]- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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