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English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠 (tōrō).

Noun

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toro (plural toros or toro)

  1. A traditional Japanese lantern.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Māori toro.

Noun

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toro

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

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Japanese トロ (toro).

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Noun

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toro (uncountable)

  1. The fatty meat of tuna served as sushi or sashimi.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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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]

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Noun

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toro m (plural toros)

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

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “toro”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
  2. ^ Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “taur”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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Central Bikol

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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tóro (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜍᜓ)

  1. bull
    Synonym: mangsad
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Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish toro.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /toɾu/ [to.ɾu] (Ternateño)

  • Hyphenation: to‧ro

Noun

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toro

  1. bull

Esperanto

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin torus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. torus

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Galician

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Toros

Etymology 1

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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.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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
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Noun

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toro m (plural toros)

  1. (architecture, geometry) torus

References

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  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “tuero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Etymology 2

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Verb

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toro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of torar

Hiligaynon

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Noun

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tóro

  1. bull, ox

Ido

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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toro (plural tori)

  1. (geometry, architecture) torus

Italian

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un toro — a bull

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

    Noun

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    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], 2nd 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[3], 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)
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    Etymology 2

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      Semantic loan from English bull.

      Noun

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      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

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        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

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        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
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        etymology 3 sense 1

        Etymology 4

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        Back-formation from torio (“thorium”)

        Noun

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        toro m (plural tori)

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

        References

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        • 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

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        Japanese

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        Romanization

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        toro

        1. Rōmaji transcription of とろ
        2. Rōmaji transcription of トロ

        Karitiâna

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        Noun

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        toro

        1. otter

        Kikuyu

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        Pronunciation

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        As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with mũgwacĩ, nyamũ, and so on.
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        toro class 14 (plural matoro)[2]

        1. sleep

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        1. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
        2. ^ “toro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 461. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

        Latin

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        Noun

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        torō

        1. dative/ablative singular of torus

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        Malagasy

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        Etymology

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        From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuzuq.

        Verb

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        toro

        1. to show
        2. to point out, indicate
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        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

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        Etymology

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        From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

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        toro

        1. three

        Māori

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        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /ˈtoro/ [ˈtɔɾɔ]

        Etymology 1

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        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]

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        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

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        toro

        1. extension
        2. scout
        3. probe

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        References

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        1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tolo.2a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
        2. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2016), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[2], volumes 5: People: Body and Mind, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 397

        Etymology 2

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

        Noun

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        toro

        1. toro (Myrsine salicina, a small native New Zealand tree.
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        Etymology 3

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

        Numeral

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        toro

        1. alternative form of toru

        Further reading

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

        Portuguese

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        toro

        Etymology 1

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        From Latin torus.

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        • Hyphenation: to‧ro

        Noun

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        toro m (plural toros)

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

        Etymology 2

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        Verb

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        toro

        1. first-person singular present indicative of torar

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        San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

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        Etymology

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

        Noun

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        toro (plural ndoro)

        1. bull

        References

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        • 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)‎[4] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN

        Sora

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        Pronunciation

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        toro

        1. to groan, to mewl

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

        References

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

        Spanish

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        Toro (A bull).

        Pronunciation

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

        Etymology 1

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

          Noun

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          toro m (plural toros)

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

          Etymology 2

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

            Noun

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            toro m (plural toros)

            1. (geometry, architecture) torus
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            Etymology 3

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              Noun

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              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

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              Etymology

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              Etymology tree
              Proto-Indo-European *táwros
              Proto-Italic *tauros
              Latin taurus
              Spanish torobor.
              Tagalog toro

                Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus, from Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of Tawro.

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                Noun

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                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

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                Further reading

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                • “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

                Tahitian

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                Etymology

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                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]

                Verb

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                toro

                1. to stretch out, to extend

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                References

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                1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tolo.2a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
                2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2016), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 397

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                • Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎[5] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
                • “toro” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

                Votic

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                Etymology

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                From Proto-Finnic *toro.

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                Noun

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                toro

                1. pipe, tube

                Inflection

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                Declension of toro (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
                singular plural
                nominative toro torod
                genitive toro torojõ
                partitive torroa toroit
                illative torro, torosõ toroisõ
                inessive toroz toroiz
                elative toross toroiss
                allative torollõ toroillõ
                adessive toroll toroill
                ablative torolt toroilt
                translative torossi toroissi
                'Standardized' inflection based on the Vaipooli dialects; see WT:AVOT.
                For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects.
                *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
                **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
                ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

                References

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                • Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “toro”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎[6], 2nd edition, Tallinn

                West Makian

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                Verb

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                toro

                1. (intransitive) to sit

                Conjugation

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                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

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                • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[7], Pacific linguistics

                Yoruba

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                Etymology

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

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                Verb

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                tòrò

                1. to be settled, to be at peace
                  Synonym: rójú
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