"taurus" meaning in Latin

See taurus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈtau̯.rus/ [Classical], [ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠] [Classical], /ˈtau̯.rus/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈt̪äːu̯rus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Etymology templates: {{inh|la|itc-pro|*tauros}} Proto-Italic *tauros, {{inh|la|ine-pro|*táwros}} Proto-Indo-European *táwros Head templates: {{la-noun|taurus<2>}} taurus m (genitive taurī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|taurus<2>}} Forms: taurī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], taurus [nominative, singular], taurī [nominative, plural], taurī [genitive, singular], taurōrum [genitive, plural], taurō [dative, singular], taurīs [dative, plural], taurum [accusative, singular], taurōs [accusative, plural], taurō [ablative, singular], taurīs [ablative, plural], taure [singular, vocative], taurī [plural, vocative]
  1. a bull, steer Tags: declension-2, masculine Categories (lifeform): Cattle, Male animals
    Sense id: en-taurus-la-noun-HBGhGGcx
  2. the constellation Taurus the bull Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-taurus-la-noun-7MYWk1EX
  3. an instrument of torture, in the shape of a bull Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-taurus-la-noun-1YHl95yc Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 15 18 25 12 11 19
  4. a small bird that sounds like the lowing of oxen, possibly the bittern Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-taurus-la-noun-fkqfK5gP
  5. a kind of beetle Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-taurus-la-noun-LmDeKzuQ
  6. (anatomy) the perineum Tags: declension-2, masculine Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-taurus-la-noun-p80sVVGj Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 5 7 13 4 2 69 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tarvus, tarvos [archaic] Hypernyms: bōs Related terms: vacca

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Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taura"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taureus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tauricornis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurifer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tauriformis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurigenus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurobolicus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurobolior"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurobolīnus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurocenta"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurophthalmon"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurulus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Taurus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "taurīnus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "tavru"
          },
          "expansion": "Aromanian: tavru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aromanian: tavru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "toru"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: toru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: toru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "toro"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: toro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: toro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "co",
            "2": "toru"
          },
          "expansion": "Corsican: toru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Corsican: toru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Taurus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: Taurus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: Taurus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "taureau"
          },
          "expansion": "French: taureau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: taureau"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "taur"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: taur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: taur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "io",
            "2": "tauro"
          },
          "expansion": "Ido: tauro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ido: tauro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ia",
            "2": "tauro"
          },
          "expansion": "Interlingua: tauro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Interlingua: tauro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "toro"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: toro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: toro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nrf",
            "2": "touothé"
          },
          "expansion": "Norman: touothé",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norman: touothé"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "taur"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: taur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: taur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "touro"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: touro\nGalician: touro\nPortuguese: touro, toiro",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: touro\nGalician: touro\nPortuguese: touro, toiro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "taur"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: taur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: taur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "taur"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: taur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: taur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "trau"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian: trau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: trau"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "tàuru",
            "3": "tàvuru"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: tàuru, tàvuru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: tàuru, tàvuru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "toro"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: toro",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: toro (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "toro"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: toro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: toro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "wa",
            "2": "torea"
          },
          "expansion": "Walloon: torea",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Walloon: torea"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*tauros"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *tauros",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*táwros"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *táwros",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "taurī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taure",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taurus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "taurus m (genitive taurī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "bōs"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taurus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "vacca"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Cattle",
          "orig": "la:Cattle",
          "parents": [
            "Bovines",
            "Livestock",
            "Even-toed ungulates",
            "Agriculture",
            "Animals",
            "Mammals",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Chordates",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Male animals",
          "orig": "la:Male animals",
          "parents": [
            "Animals",
            "Male",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Gender",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a bull, steer"
      ],
      "id": "en-taurus-la-noun-HBGhGGcx",
      "links": [
        [
          "bull",
          "bull"
        ],
        [
          "steer",
          "steer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Whether it is a cow or a bull is not easy to know:\nthe front part appears, the hindquarters lie hidden.\n(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.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.717–718",
          "roman": "pars prior appāret, posteriōra latent.",
          "text": "vacca sit an taurus, nōn est cognōscere prōmptum:"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the constellation Taurus the bull"
      ],
      "id": "en-taurus-la-noun-7MYWk1EX",
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 18 25 12 11 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an instrument of torture, in the shape of a bull"
      ],
      "id": "en-taurus-la-noun-1YHl95yc",
      "links": [
        [
          "torture",
          "torture"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a small bird that sounds like the lowing of oxen, possibly the bittern"
      ],
      "id": "en-taurus-la-noun-fkqfK5gP",
      "links": [
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "lowing",
          "lowing"
        ],
        [
          "ox",
          "ox"
        ],
        [
          "bittern",
          "bittern"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a kind of beetle"
      ],
      "id": "en-taurus-la-noun-LmDeKzuQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "beetle",
          "beetle"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "la:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 7 13 4 2 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the perineum"
      ],
      "id": "en-taurus-la-noun-p80sVVGj",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "perineum",
          "perineum"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) the perineum"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtau̯.rus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtau̯.rus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt̪äːu̯rus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "tarvus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "tarvos"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "la:taurus"
  ],
  "word": "taurus"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "taura"
    },
    {
      "word": "taureus"
    },
    {
      "word": "tauricornis"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurifer"
    },
    {
      "word": "tauriformis"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurigenus"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurobolicus"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurobolior"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurobolīnus"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurocenta"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurophthalmon"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurulus"
    },
    {
      "word": "Taurus"
    },
    {
      "word": "taurīnus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "tavru"
          },
          "expansion": "Aromanian: tavru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aromanian: tavru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "toru"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: toru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: toru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "toro"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: toro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: toro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "co",
            "2": "toru"
          },
          "expansion": "Corsican: toru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Corsican: toru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Taurus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: Taurus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: Taurus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "taureau"
          },
          "expansion": "French: taureau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: taureau"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "taur"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: taur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: taur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "io",
            "2": "tauro"
          },
          "expansion": "Ido: tauro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ido: tauro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ia",
            "2": "tauro"
          },
          "expansion": "Interlingua: tauro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Interlingua: tauro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "toro"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: toro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: toro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nrf",
            "2": "touothé"
          },
          "expansion": "Norman: touothé",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Norman: touothé"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "taur"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: taur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: taur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "tor"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: tor",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: tor"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "touro"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: touro\nGalician: touro\nPortuguese: touro, toiro",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: touro\nGalician: touro\nPortuguese: touro, toiro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "taur"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: taur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: taur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "taur"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: taur",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: taur"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "trau"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian: trau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: trau"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "tàuru",
            "3": "tàvuru"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: tàuru, tàvuru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: tàuru, tàvuru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "toro"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: toro",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: toro (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "toro"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: toro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: toro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "wa",
            "2": "torea"
          },
          "expansion": "Walloon: torea",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Walloon: torea"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*tauros"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *tauros",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*táwros"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *táwros",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "taurī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taure",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taurī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taurus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "taurus m (genitive taurī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "bōs"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taurus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "vacca"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "la:Cattle",
        "la:Male animals"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a bull, steer"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bull",
          "bull"
        ],
        [
          "steer",
          "steer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Whether it is a cow or a bull is not easy to know:\nthe front part appears, the hindquarters lie hidden.\n(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.)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.717–718",
          "roman": "pars prior appāret, posteriōra latent.",
          "text": "vacca sit an taurus, nōn est cognōscere prōmptum:"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the constellation Taurus the bull"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "an instrument of torture, in the shape of a bull"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "torture",
          "torture"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a small bird that sounds like the lowing of oxen, possibly the bittern"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "lowing",
          "lowing"
        ],
        [
          "ox",
          "ox"
        ],
        [
          "bittern",
          "bittern"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a kind of beetle"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beetle",
          "beetle"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "la:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the perineum"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "perineum",
          "perineum"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) the perineum"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtau̯.rus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtau̯.rus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt̪äːu̯rus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tarvus"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "tarvos"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "la:taurus"
  ],
  "word": "taurus"
}

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