toro

Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠.

toro (plural toros or toro)

1. A traditional Japanese lantern.

Borrowed from Māori.

toro

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

• Root, Toor, root, roto, roto-, troo

Inherited from Old Catalan toro, from Latin taurus. Directly inherited from Latin, despite the final vowel.^[1] Cognate with Occitan taur. Old Catalan also had a form taur, which was borrowed from Latin.^[2]

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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toro m (plural toros)

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

• torejar
• toro mecànic

• “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, 2026
• “toro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

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

tóro (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜍᜓ)

1. bull

   Synonym: mangsad

Inherited from Spanish toro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo/, [ˈt̪o.ɾo]

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

toro

1. bull

Ultimately from Latin torus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoro/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification: to‧ro

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

1. torus

13th century. Inherited from Latin torus, cognate with Spanish tuero.^[1] In the second meaning it is rather a learned borrowing from Latin from the same etymon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɾo̝/

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

• tora
• torada
• torar

toro m (plural toros)

1. (architecture, geometry) torus

• 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

toro

1. first-person singular present indicative of torar

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

tóro

1. bull, ox

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoro/

toro (plural tori)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

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

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

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)

Semantic loan from English bull.

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

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin torus.

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

• toroide

Back-formation from torio (“thorium”)

toro m (plural tori)

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

• 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

• orto, orto-, roto, rotò

toro

1. Rōmaji transcription of とろ

toro

1. otter

• 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.^[1]

toro class 14 (plural matoro)^[2]

1. sleep

torō

1. dative/ablative singular of torus

• "toro", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuzuq.

toro

1. to show
2. to point out, indicate

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

toro

1. three

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoro/ [ˈtɔɾɔ]

From Proto-Polynesian *dolo from Proto-Oceanic *dolo (“to crawl along the ground” – compare with Rarotongan toro, Tahitian toro, Samoan tolo, Tongan tolo)^[1][2]

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

toro

1. extension
2. scout
3. probe

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

toro

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

• akatorotoro
• toropapa

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

toro

1. alternative form of toru

• 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.

From Latin torus.

• Hyphenation: to‧ro

toro m (plural toros)

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

toro

1. first-person singular present indicative of torar

• “toro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “toro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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

toro (plural ndoro)

1. bull

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːroː/

toro

1. to groan, to mewl

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

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

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

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

toro m (plural toros)

1. bull

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

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

toro m (plural toros)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

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

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

• “toro”, 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

• orto, otro, roto

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

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

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

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

From Proto-Polynesian *dolo from Proto-Oceanic *dolo (“to crawl along the ground” – compare with Māori toro, Rarotongan toro, Samoan tolo, Tongan tolo)^[1][2]

toro

1. to stretch out, to extend

• Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎^[4] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
• “toro” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.r̪o/

toro

1. (intransitive) to sit

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[5], Pacific linguistics

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

• IPA^(key): /tò.ɾò/

tòrò

1. to be settled, to be at peace

   Synonym: rójú