Tor
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tor"
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Tor
- (computing) Abbreviation of The Onion Routing, an implementation of second-generation onion routing.
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Clipping of Toronto.
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Tor
- Abbreviation of Toronto.
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- Thor (given name)
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Tor
- (Norse mythology) Thor.
- a male given name from Old Norse
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Tor
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Inflection of Tor (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Tor | — | ||
genitive | Torin | — | ||
partitive | Toria | — | ||
illative | Toriin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Tor | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Tor | — | |
gen. | Torin | |||
genitive | Torin | — | ||
partitive | Toria | — | ||
inessive | Torissa | — | ||
elative | Torista | — | ||
illative | Toriin | — | ||
adessive | Torilla | — | ||
ablative | Torilta | — | ||
allative | Torille | — | ||
essive | Torina | — | ||
translative | Toriksi | — | ||
abessive | Toritta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German and Old High German tor, from Proto-West Germanic *dor, from Proto-Germanic *durą.
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Tor n (strong, genitive Tores or Tors, plural Tore)
- gate, archway (passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry)
- gate, door (large doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall)
- Dies ist ein Garagentor, nur ein Ochse parkt davor.
- This is a garage door, only an ox parks in front of it.
- (figurative) gateway (point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another)
- Cham, das Tor zum Bayerwald - Cham, the gateway to the Bavarian Forest
- (sports) goal, net (area into which the players attempt to put a ball)
- (sports) goal (The act of scoring a goal in sports where doing so is the object)
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Declension of Tor [neuter, strong]
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gate
sports
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sports
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle High German tōre (literally “hazy, foggy”), from the root of Dunst (“haze”).
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Tor m (weak, genitive Toren, plural Toren, feminine Törin)
- (dated or literary) fool (person with poor judgment or little intelligence)
- Synonym: Narr
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Prolog im Himmel”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One][1]:
- Fürwahr! er dient euch auf besondre Weise. / Nicht irdisch ist des Thoren Trank noch Speise.
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- 2nd half of the 18th century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Prometheus (transl. "Prometheus")
- Ihr nähret kümmerlich / Von Opfersteuern / Und Gebetshauch / Eure Majestät, / Und darbtet, wären / Nicht Kinder und Bettler / Hoffnungsvolle Thoren.
- Your majesty / Is barely nourished / By sacrificial offerings / And prayerful exhalations, / And should starve / Were children and beggars not / Fools full of Hope.
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- Said the Raven: "Never, you fool."
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Declension of Tor [masculine, weak]
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Further reading edit
- “Tor” in Duden online
- “Tor” in Duden online
- “Tor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Tor on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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From Norwegian Nynorsk Þórr. The given name is also a spelling variant of Tord, from Þórðr.
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Tor
- (Norse mythology) Thor.
- a male given name from Old Norse
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male given names
female given names
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- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 22 416 males with the given name Tor (compared to 7 934 named Thor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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From Old Norse Þórr. The given name is also a spelling variant of Tord, from Þórðr.
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Tor m (definite Toren)
- (Norse mythology) Thor
- a male given name from Old Norse
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male given names
female given names
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- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 22 416 males with the given name Tor (compared to 7 934 named Thor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
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Borrowed from English Thor, fromOld Norse Þórr.
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Tor m
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Tor m (genitive Tors)
- (Norse mythology) Thor, god of thunder.
- a male given name from Old Norse, short for names beginning with the Old Norse element Tor-
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Tor
- a male given name