matador

See also: Matador

English

A matadora in traditional garb.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish matador (“killer”). Used in the English language as title for a bullfighter, however referred to as a torero in Spain.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmætədɔɹ/

Noun

matador (plural matadors or matadores, feminine matadora)

1. (bullfighting) The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight.
2. (uncountable) A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.
3. (card games) The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat.
4. (card games) One of the three chief cards in ombre and quadrille.

Translations

bullfighter

• Bulgarian: матадор m (matador)
• Catalan: matador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鬥牛士 (zh), 斗牛士 (zh) (dòuniúshì)

• Czech: matador (cs) m
• Dutch: stierenvechter (nl)
• Finnish: matadori (fi)
• French: matador (fr) m
• German: Matador m

• Greek: ταυρομάχος (el) (tavromáchos)
• Irish: tarbhadóir m, tarbhchomhraiceoir m
• Japanese: マタドール (matadōru), 闘牛士 (とうぎゅうし, tōgyūshi)
• Korean: 부우사 (buusa)
• Portuguese: toureiro (pt) m, toureador m
• Russian: матадо́р (ru) m (matadór), тореадо́р (ru) m (toreadór)
• Spanish: matador (es) m
• Swedish: matador (sv) c

See also

• bullfighting
• bull ring
• picador
• tauromachy
• toreador

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Czech

Noun

matador m

1. (bullfighting) matador (the person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight)
   • 1930, Karel Čapek, Výlet do Španěl:

     Bledý matador jde znovu s mečem a muletou zabíjet podle pravidel hry; avšak býk se zaberanil a stojí se vztyčenou hlavou, se šíjí zježenou banderillami a jakoby přehozenou pláštěm krve.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

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Danish

Etymology

From Spanish matador.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Noun

matador c (singular definite matadoren, plural indefinite matadorer)

1. matador (bullfighting)
2. tycoon

Declension

Declension of matador

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	matador	matadoren	matadorer	matadorerne
genitive	matadors	matadorens	matadorers	matadorernes

Proper noun

matador

1. Monopoly (board game)

References

• “matador” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish matador.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ta.dɔʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

matador m (plural matadors)

1. (bullfighting) matador

Further reading

• “matador” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Portuguese

Etymology

matar +‎ -dor

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mataˈdo(ʁ)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐtɐˈðoɾ/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta‧dor

Noun

matador m (plural matadores, feminine matadora, feminine plural matadoras)

1. killer (someone who kills)

Adjective

matador m (feminine singular matadora, masculine plural matadores, feminine plural matadoras, comparable)

1. which often kills

Further reading

• “matador” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Etymology

matar (“kill”) +‎ -dor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mataˈdoɾ/, [mat̪aˈðoɾ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta‧dor

Noun

matador m (plural matadores, feminine matadora, feminine plural matadoras)

1. a slaughterer, a killer

   Synonym: asesino

2. (bullfighting) matador, a featured bullfighter at a bullfight event

   Synonym: diestro

See also

• picador
• toreador

Descendants

• → Danish: matador
• → English: matador
• → French: matador
• → Tagalog: matador

Further reading

• “matador” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish matador.

Noun

matador

1. a butcher
2. (bullfighting) matador, a bullfighter