toro

See also: Törö, törö, Toro, toró, Toró, tōrō, törő, and tọrọ

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠.

Noun

toro (plural toros or toro)

1. A traditional Japanese lantern.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

toro

1. Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand.

Anagrams

• Root, Toor, root, roto, roto-, troo

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo/ [ˈto.ɾo]
• Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

tóro (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜍᜓ)

1. bull

   Synonym: mangsad

Related terms

• torero
• toril

See also

• baka

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan toro, from Latin taurus. Directly inherited from Latin, despite the final vowel. Cognate with Occitan taur. Old Catalan also had a form taur, which was borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɔ.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɔ.ɾo]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. bull
2. bittern
3. (colloquial) forklift

Derived terms

• torejar
• toro mecànic

Further reading

• “toro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “toro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “toro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish toro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo/, [ˈt̪o.ɾo]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾu/, [ˈt̪o.ɾu] (Ternateño)
• Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

toro

1. bull

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoro/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

toro (accusative singular toron, plural toroj, accusative plural torojn)

1. torus

Galician

Toros

Etymology 1

13th century. Inherited from Latin torus, cognate with Spanish tuero. In the second meaning it is rather a learned borrowing from Latin from the same etymon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo̝/

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. tree trunk

   Synonym: tora

   • 1277, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, editor, Os documentos do tombo de Toxos Outos, Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 112:

     todos estes disserun que a herdade dessa hermida de San Martino de Rates que era departida da outra herdade regaenga pela cerdeyra do outeyro que esta cabo do camino, et dessi como uay et enfia ao toro do castineiro de cyma que chaman da senrra do regaengo

     all of them said that the property of the hermitage of Saint Martin of Rates departed from the other royal property by the cherry tree of the hill, which is by the path, and from there in direction to the trunk of the chestnut tree above where they call the Senra do Reguengo

2. tree round section

   Synonym: torada

3. round slice of fish

   Synonym: roda

Derived terms

• tora
• torada
• torar

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. (architecture, geometry) torus

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “toro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “toro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “toro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “toro (xeral)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “toro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

toro

1. first-person singular present indicative of torar

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Noun

tóro

1. bull, ox

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English torus, French tore, German Torus, Italian toro, Russian торус (torus), ultimately from Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoro/

Noun

toro (plural tori)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

Italian

un toro — a bull

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɔro
• Hyphenation: tò‧ro

Etymology 1

Inherited from Classical Latin taurus, from Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of tauro, which is a learned borrowing.

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

2. bull (uncastrated adult male bovine)

   Hypernym: bovino

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 22–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Qual è quel toro che si slaccia in quella / c’ ha ricevuto già ’l colpo mortale, / che gir non sa, ma qua e là saltella […]

     Just like a bull who breaks free, after having already received the fatal blow, cannot escape, and just jumps around […]

   • 1475, Angelo Poliziano, “Libro I”, in Stanze de messer Angelo Poliziano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici‎^[2], Turin, section 66, lines 3–4; collected in Poemetti italiani, volume 1, publ. Michel Angelo Morano, 1797, page 63:

     […] il pastor, a cui il fier lupo ha tolto / Il più bel toro del cornuto armento

     […] the shepherd, from whom the fierce wolf has taken the best bull of the horned herd

3. (figurative) bull (large, strong man; also, a virile man)
5. (astronomy) alternative letter-case form of Toro: Taurus (constellation of the Zodiac)
7. (astrology) alternative letter-case form of Toro: Taurus (Zodiac sign)

Derived terms

• prendere il toro per le corna
• rana toro
• tagliare la testa al toro
• torello
• toro marino
• toro meccanico

Related terms

• taurino
• toreare
• torero

See also

• bue
• vacca
• vitello

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from English bull.

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

1. (finance, uncommon) bull (investor who buys in anticipation of a rise in prices)

   Synonym: rialzista

   Antonyms: orso, ribassista

   Hypernym: investitore

Etymology 3

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin torus.

esempî di toro — examples of a torus (sense 1)

rappresentazione di un toro — representation of a torus (sense 2)

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

2. (architecture) torus

   Hypernym: modanatura

   Holonym: colonna

4. (mathematics, geometry) torus

   Hypernyms: superficie, solido

6. (botany) torus, receptacle

   Synonym: ricettacolo

   Holonym: peduncolo

8. (botany) torus (thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit)

   Holonym: xilema

10. (literary, law, obsolete) marriage bed

    Synonym: talamo

    1. (loosely, rare) bed

       Synonym: letto

    2. (figurative, rare) bed of torment
11. (law, obsolete) right to marital fidelity

Derived terms

• toroide

Related terms

• toroidale
• toroso

See also

sense 1

• astragalo
• bastone
• cordone
• tondino

Etymology 4

Back-formation from torio (“thorium”)

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

1. (physics, uncountable) thoron (Radon-220, an isotope of radon)

References

• toro¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• toro² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• toro³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• “toro”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 21 toi–z, UTET, 2002, page 62

Anagrams

• orto, orto-, roto, rotò

Japanese

Romanization

toro

1. Rōmaji transcription of とろ

Karitiâna

Noun

toro

1. otter

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̀ɾɔ̌ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with mũgwacĩ, nyamũ, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including baba, guka, gũtũ, mũguĩ, mũtwe, nyamũ, ruo, rũhĩ (pl. hĩ), rũkũ (pl. ngũ), taata (“my aunt”), ũta (pl. mota), ũthiũ (pl. mothiũ), and so on.

Noun

toro class 14 (plural matoro)

1. sleep

Latin

Noun

torō

1. dative/ablative singular of torus

References

• "toro", 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)

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuzuq.

Verb

toro

1. to show
2. to point out, indicate

Related terms

	focus (voice)
agent (active)	man-form	manoro
	mi-form	—
	om-form	—
patient (passive)	toroana
	alternate	—
	a-form	atoro
	voa-form	voatoro
	tafa-form	—
goal (relative)	an-form	anoroana
	i-form	—

Mansaka

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

Numeral

toro

1. three

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *dolo from Proto-Oceanic *dolo (“to crawl along the ground” – compare with Rarotongan toro, Tahitian toro, Samoan tolo, Tongan tolo)

Verb

toro (passive toroa or torohia or torona)(transitive)

1. to stretch out, to extend
2. to creep, to crawl
3. to visit, to call on
4. to scout out, to reconnoitre, to probe
5. to forage

Noun

toro

1. extension
2. scout
3. probe

Derived terms

• mātoro
• torotoro
• totoro
• whakatoro

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

toro

1. toro (Myrsine salicina, a small native New Zealand tree.

Derived terms

• akatorotoro
• toropapa

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Numeral

toro

1. alternative form of toru

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “kupu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 514
• “toro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Portuguese

toro

Etymology 1

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ɾu/

• Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. tree ring
2. torus (three dimensional shape)

Etymology 2

Verb

toro

1. first-person singular present indicative of torar

San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Noun

toro (plural ndoro)

1. bull

References

• Stewart, Cloyd; Stewart, Ruth D.; colaboradores amuzgos (2000), Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN

Sora

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːroː/

Verb

toro

1. to groan, to mewl

Derived terms

• torod ("moan during sleep")
• torodum ("unconsciously words during sleep whimper")

References

• Ramamurti, R. S. (1933). Sora–English Dictionary. Delhi: Mittal Publication.

Spanish

Toro (A bull).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo/ [ˈt̪o.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -oɾo
• Syllabification: to‧ro

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin taurus (compare Italian toro, Portuguese touro, Romanian taur), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of Tauro.

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. bull

Derived terms

• a toro pasado
• coger el toro por los cuernos; tomar el toro por los cuernos
• corrida de toros
• echar la capa al toro
• en los cuernos del toro
• hasta el rabo, todo es toro
• hierba del toro
• mierda de toro
• pillar el toro
• plaza de toros
• rana toro
• sombra de toro
• torear (verb)
• torero m
• toro bravo
• toro de fuego
• toro de lidia
• toro de muerte
• toro de puntas
• toro de ronda
• toro del aguardiente
• toro embolado
• toro mecánico

Related terms

• taurino

Descendants

• → Navajo: dóola
• → Northern Tepehuan: tuúru
• → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: toro
• → Southeastern Tepehuan: tuur
• → Taos: tùluʼúna
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: turo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin torus (“swelling, bulge, cushion”). Doublet of the inherited tuero.

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

See also

• Toro (geometría) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• Toro (arquitectura) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Etymology 3

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. (colloquial) forklift, lift truck, jitney, fork truck (a small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved)

   Synonyms: carretilla, carretilla elevadora, grúa horquilla, montacargas

Further reading

• “toro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Anagrams

• orto, otro, roto

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus. Doublet of Tawro.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo/ [ˈt̪oː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -oɾo
• Syllabification: to‧ro

Noun

toro (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜓ)

1. bull
2. (slang, dated) stud; hunk; macho man
3. (slang, dated) penis

   Synonyms: uten, titi

4. (slang, dated) live sex show; pay-per-view sex

Derived terms

• toro't kara
• toro-toro
• torohan

Related terms

• huwego de-toro
• korida de toros
• Tawro
• toreador
• torero
• torete

See also

• baka
• pagtatalik

Further reading

• “toro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993), Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 145

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *dolo from Proto-Oceanic *dolo (“to crawl along the ground” – compare with Maori toro, Rarotongan toro, Samoan tolo, Tongan tolo)

Verb

toro

1. to stretch out, to extend

Derived terms

• puaʻatoro

Further reading

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “toro” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.r̪o/

Verb

toro

1. (intransitive) to sit

Conjugation

Conjugation of toro (action verb)

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		totoro	motoro	atoro
2nd person		notoro	fotoro
3rd person	inanimate	itoro	dotoro
	animate
imperative		notoro, toro	fotoro, toro

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

Etymology

From tò (“to arrange; to align”) +‎ rò

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tò.ɾò/

Verb

tòrò

1. to be settled, to be at peace

   Synonym: rójú