taurus

• tarvus, tarvos (archaic)

From Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtau̯.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪aːu̯.rus]

taurus m (genitive taurī); second declension

1. a bull, steer
2. the constellation Taurus the bull
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.717–718:

     vacca sit an taurus, nōn est cognōscere prōmptum:
     pars prior appāret, posteriōra latent.

     Whether it is a cow or a bull is not easy to know:
     the front part appears, the hindquarters lie hidden.
     (Although Ovid wryly observes that Taurus (constellation) depicts only the head, horns, and forequarters of this mythological animal, traditionally it was seen as a ‘‘taurus’’ and not a ‘‘vacca’’ charging in the sky.)

3. an instrument of torture, in the shape of a bull
4. a (dialectal, Gaul) small bird that sounds like the lowing of oxen, possibly the bittern
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 10.116:

     est quae boum mugitus imitetur, in Arelatensi agro taurus appellata, alioquin parva est.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. a kind of beetle
6. (anatomy) the perineum

Second-declension noun.

• bōs

• vacca

• “taurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “taurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "taurus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “taurus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “taurus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “taurus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “taurus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “toro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

• sutura

taurus m

1. accusative plural of taurs (“aurochs”)

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• IPA^(key): [tɒʊˈrʊs]

taurùs m (feminine tauri̇̀, neuter taurù) stress pattern 4

1. noble

   Synonym: kilnùs

2. honorable

taurùs

1. accusative plural of taũras (“aurochs”)