Toronto
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Toronto
See also: Torontó
English
Etymology
From Mohawk tkaronto (“where trees stand in water”), originally referring to the strait between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching.[1]
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /təˈɹɑn(t)oʊ/, ,
- (local, MTE) IPA(key): /təˈɹɑnoʊ/, , , , , , ,
Audio (Canada, informal): (file) [2] Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: To‧ron‧to
Proper noun
Toronto
- The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city in Canada.
- 2022 April 18, Catherine Porter, “A ‘Wild West’ of Marijuana Shops Grows in Toronto”, in The New York Times:
- As Toronto slowly comes back to life after two years of repeated lockdowns and closures, the wreckage of the pandemic is surfacing like cigarette butts in melted snow drifts.
- A lakeside suburb within the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
- An unincorporated area and community of the township of Lot 23, Grenville Parish, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- A village in County Durham, England.
- A former unincorporated community in Woodside Township, now a suburb of Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
- A ghost town in Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
- A small town in Clinton County, Iowa.
- A tiny city in Woodson County, Kansas, named after Toronto, Ontario.
- An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri, named after Toronto, Ontario.
- A city in Jefferson County, Ohio, named after Toronto, Ontario.
- A small town in Deuel County, South Dakota, named after Toronto, Ontario.
Synonyms
- (city in Canada): The Big Smoke, Hogtown, Hollywood North, Muddy York (historical nickname), The 6, The North, Queen City, T.O., York (former name)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
city in Canada
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References
- ^ Gray, Jeff (2003 October 17) “A defining moment for tkaronto”, in The Globe and Mail, retrieved 2022-09-23
- ^ Gallinger, Zack, Motskin, Arik (2018 June 1) “This is How Canada Talks”, in The 10 and 3, retrieved 2022-09-23
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Toronto (accusative Toronton)
- Toronto (the capital city of Ontario, Canada, and largest city in Canada)
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Toronto
- Toronto (the capital city of Ontario, Canada, and largest city in Canada)
Declension
| Inflection of Toronto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Toronto | — | |
| genitive | Toronton | — | |
| partitive | Torontoa | — | |
| illative | Torontoon | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Toronto | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Toronto | — |
| gen. | Toronton | ||
| genitive | Toronton | — | |
| partitive | Torontoa | — | |
| inessive | Torontossa | — | |
| elative | Torontosta | — | |
| illative | Torontoon | — | |
| adessive | Torontolla | — | |
| ablative | Torontolta | — | |
| allative | Torontolle | — | |
| essive | Torontona | — | |
| translative | Torontoksi | — | |
| abessive | Torontotta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Toronto m
- Toronto (the capital city of Ontario, Canada)
- Toronto (a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Toronto, from Mohawk tkaronto.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Toronto
- Toronto (the capital city of Ontario, Canada, and the largest city in Canada)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Toronto | — |
| accusative | Torontót | — |
| dative | Torontónak | — |
| instrumental | Torontóval | — |
| causal-final | Torontóért | — |
| translative | Torontóvá | — |
| terminative | Torontóig | — |
| essive-formal | Torontóként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Torontóban | — |
| superessive | Torontón | — |
| adessive | Torontónál | — |
| illative | Torontóba | — |
| sublative | Torontóra | — |
| allative | Torontóhoz | — |
| elative | Torontóból | — |
| delative | Torontóról | — |
| ablative | Torontótól | — |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
Torontóé | — |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
Torontóéi | — |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | Torontóm | — |
| 2nd person sing. | Torontód | — |
| 3rd person sing. | Torontója | — |
| 1st person plural | Torontónk | — |
| 2nd person plural | Torontótok | — |
| 3rd person plural | Torontójuk | — |
Derived terms
Japanese
Romanization
Toronto
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English Toronto, from Mohawk tkaronto.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: To‧ron‧to
Proper noun
Toronto
- Toronto (the capital city of Ontario, Canada, and largest city in Canada)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Toronto n (genitive singular Toronta, declension pattern of mesto)
- Toronto (the capital city of Ontario, Canada, and largest city in Canada)
References
- “Toronto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Toronto m