toreador

See also: toréador

English

Etymology

From Spanish toreador, from torear (“to fight bulls”), from toro (“bull”), from Latin taurus.

Noun

toreador (plural toreadors or toreadores)

1. (bullfighting) A bullfighter, especially one on horseback.
   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 21:

     Such figures formed part of some ivory model of the Bull Ring, and are meant to suggest the toreadors who loom so large in the art and the traditions of Knossos. We can imagine the associations which such young toreadors would suggest, hung in the air by fine gold chains above the back of an ivory bull, when we look at a scene painted on one of the frescoes.

Synonyms

• torero

Derived terms

• toreador pants

Translations

a bullfighter

• Asturian: toreru m
• Catalan: torejador m, torero m
• Esperanto: toreisto
• Finnish: toreadori (fi), härkätaistelija (fi)
• French: toréador (fr) m, toréro (fr) m, torero (fr) m
• Galician: toureiro (gl) m, lidador (gl) m
• German: Torero (de) m, Stierfechter m
• Indonesian: toreador
• Irish: tarbhadóir m, tarbhchomhraiceoir m
• Italian: torero (it)
• Korean: 투우사(鬪牛士) (ko) (tuusa)
• Macedonian: тореа́дор m (toreádor)
• Polish: toreador (pl) m, torreador (pl) m
• Portuguese: toureiro (pt), toireiro (pt) m, toureador m
• Romanian: toreador (ro) m, torero (ro) m
• Russian: тореадо́р (ru) m (toreadór)
• Spanish: torero (es), toreador m
• Swedish: toreador (sv), tjurfäktare (sv)
• Turkish: toreador (tr)

See also

• matador

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toreador.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: to‧re‧a‧dor

Noun

toreador m (plural toreadors, no diminutive)

1. (bullfighting) torero, bullfighter, toreador

Synonyms

• stierenvechter
• torero

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toreador.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to.re.ˈa.dɔr/
• Rhymes: -dɔr
• Hyphenation: to‧re‧a‧dor

Noun

toreador (plural toreador-toreador)

1. torero, bullfighter, toreador

Further reading

• “toreador”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Polish

Alternative forms

• torreador

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish toreadorbor.

Polish toreador

Borrowed from Spanish toreador.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.rɛˈa.dɔr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -adɔr
• Syllabification: to‧re‧a‧dor

Noun

toreador m pers

1. toreador

Declension

Declension of toreador

	singular	plural
nominative	toreador	toreadorzy/toreadory (deprecative)
genitive	toreadora	toreadorów
dative	toreadorowi	toreadorom
accusative	toreadora	toreadorów
instrumental	toreadorem	toreadorami
locative	toreadorze	toreadorach
vocative	toreadorze	toreadorzy

Further reading

• “toreador”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “toreador”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French toréador.

Noun

toreador m (plural toreadori)

1. bullfighter

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	toreador	toreadorul	toreadori	toreadorii
genitive-dative	toreador	toreadorului	toreadori	toreadorilor
vocative	toreadorule		toreadorilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toreador.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /torěaːdoːr/
• Hyphenation: to‧re‧a‧dor

Noun

torèādōr m anim (Cyrillic spelling торѐа̄до̄р)

1. (bullfighting) toreador

Declension

Declension of toreador

	singular	plural
nominative	toreador	toreadori
genitive	toreadora	toreadora
dative	toreadoru	toreadorima
accusative	toreadora	toreadore
vocative	toreadore	toreadori
locative	toreadoru	toreadorima
instrumental	toreadorom	toreadorima

Spanish

Etymology

From torear +‎ -dor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toɾeaˈdoɾ/ [t̪o.ɾe.aˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: to‧re‧a‧dor

Noun

toreador m (plural toreadores)

1. (bullfighting) toreador

   Synonym: torero

Descendants

• → Dutch: toreador
• → English: toreador
• → French: toréador
• → Polish: toreador, torreador
• → Serbo-Croatian: torèādōr

Further reading

• “toreador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025