Masculine
toro
Meaning
- (masculine) bull (uncastrated adult male bovine)
- (figuratively, masculine) bull (large, strong man; also, a virile man)
- (alt-of, masculine) alternative letter-case form of Toro: Taurus (constellation of the Zodiac)
- (alt-of, masculine) alternative letter-case form of Toro: Taurus (Zodiac sign)
Opposite of
orso, ribassista
Frequency
Hyphenated as
tò‧ro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɔ.ro/
Etymology
Inherited from Classical Latin taurus, from Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of tauro, which is a learned borrowing.
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