tauro

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See also: Tauro, tauró, and taŭro

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French taureau, from Latin taurus.

Pronunciation

Noun

tauro (plural tauri)

  1. bull

See also

Interlingua

Noun

tauro (plural tauros)

  1. bull

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin taurus, from Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of toro, which is inherited.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaw.ro/
  • Rhymes: -awro
  • Hyphenation: tàu‧ro

Noun

tauro m (plural tauri) (poetic)

  1. Synonym of toro:
    1. bull
      • mid 1370s, Giovanni Boccaccio, chapter 5, in Esposizioni sopra la Commedia, Stavvi Minos orribilmente, e ringhia; republished as Il comento sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri di Giovanni Boccaccio, volume 2, Florence: Ig Moutier, 1831, page 7:
        quivi essendosi Giove trasformato in un tauro bianchissimo e bello, […]
        Jupiter, having transformed into a beautiful white bull,
    2. (astronomy) Taurus (constellation)
      • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎, lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
        Ora era onde ’l salir non volea storpio; / ché ’l sole avëa il cerchio di merigge / lasciato al Tauro e la notte a lo Scorpio:
        The time was such that there needed not be hesitation in the ascent; for the sun had left the meridian circle to the Taurus, and the night to the Scorpio.
    3. (astrology) Taurus (zodiac sign)
      • 1540, Alessandro Piccolomini, “Del nascimento e cadimento dei segni nella sfera retta”, Libro terzo [Third book], in Della sfera del mondo‎, Venice: Al segno del Pozzo, page 30:
        il Tauro e l’Aquario ſono vgualmente lontani dal punto de l’equinottio de la Primauera
        [il Tauro e l'Acquario sono ugualmente lontani dal punto dell'equinozio della primavera]
        Taurus and Aquarius are equally distant from the point of the Spring Equinox

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Latin

Noun

taurō

  1. dative/ablative singular of taurus

Lithuanian

Noun

taũro

  1. genitive singular of taũras (“aurochs”)
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