tor
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (US) IPA(key): /tɔɹ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /tɔː(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (file) - Homophones: tore (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), torr (all accents), tour (in accents with the pour-poor merger), taw (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor (“a high rock, lofty hill, tower”), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor (“hill”); ultimately from Latin turris (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis, “tower”), of non-Indo-European origin.
Cognate with Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr, Welsh tŵr, Irish tor, French tor, and Romansch tor/tur/tuor; the first four are from Proto-Celtic (from Latin turris), the last two directly from Latin turris (from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) and τύρσις (túrsis)). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. Doublet of tower.
NounEdit
tor (plural tors)
- (geology) A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock.
- 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 9:
- The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
- 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:
- Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.
- 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 9:
- (South-West England) A hill with such rock formation.
- 2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night, Signet Eclipse (2008), →ISBN, page 242:
- She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors—and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.
- 2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night, Signet Eclipse (2008), →ISBN, page 242:
- (Britain, dialect) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A tower; a turret.
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
tor (comparative more tor, superlative most tor)
- Alternative form of tore ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch tor, from Middle Dutch torre.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tor (plural torre)
AzerbaijaniEdit
Other scripts | ||
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Cyrillic | ||
Roman | tor | |
Perso-Arabic | تور |
EtymologyEdit
From Common Turkic *tor. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tor, “net”).
NounEdit
tor (definite accusative toru, plural torlar)
DeclensionEdit
BretonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Breton torr, teur, from Old Breton tar, from Proto-Celtic *torr-V- (“belly”), of uncertain origin; according to Matasovic, of non-Indo-European origin, but according to MacBain, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to turn, rub”), cognate with Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“guts, intestines”), Ancient Greek τάμισος (támisos, “rennet”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tor m (plural torioù, collective toroù)
MutationEdit
SynonymsEdit
NounEdit
tor
- Hard mutation of dor.
MutationEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) , “torrV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 385
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tor”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page tàrr
CimbrianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German tor, from Old High German tor, from Proto-Germanic *durą (“large door; gate”). Cognate with German Tor, English door.
NounEdit
tor n (Luserna)
ReferencesEdit
- “tor” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
tor
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch torre, of uncertain origin, possibly an imitative Middle Dutch base turren (“buzz”). Compare cognate West Frisian tuorre, toarre.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tor f (plural torren, diminutive torretje n)
- beetle, insect of the order Coleoptera
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: tor
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “tor”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
HungarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
tor (plural torok)
- (literary, archaic or folksy) meal, repast (ceremonial meal held after weddings, funerals, or other special occasions)
- halotti tor ― funeral feast
- disznótor ― meal on pig-killing day
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | tor | torok |
accusative | tort | torokat |
dative | tornak | toroknak |
instrumental | torral | torokkal |
causal-final | torért | torokért |
translative | torrá | torokká |
terminative | torig | torokig |
essive-formal | torként | torokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | torban | torokban |
superessive | toron | torokon |
adessive | tornál | toroknál |
illative | torba | torokba |
sublative | torra | torokra |
allative | torhoz | torokhoz |
elative | torból | torokból |
delative | torról | torokról |
ablative | tortól | toroktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
toré | toroké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
toréi | torokéi |
Possessive forms of tor | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | torom | toraim |
2nd person sing. | torod | toraid |
3rd person sing. | tora | torai |
1st person plural | torunk | toraink |
2nd person plural | torotok | toraitok |
3rd person plural | toruk | toraik |
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “breastplate, chest”), created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
NounEdit
tor (plural torok)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | tor | torok |
accusative | tort | torokat |
dative | tornak | toroknak |
instrumental | torral | torokkal |
causal-final | torért | torokért |
translative | torrá | torokká |
terminative | torig | torokig |
essive-formal | torként | torokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | torban | torokban |
superessive | toron | torokon |
adessive | tornál | toroknál |
illative | torba | torokba |
sublative | torra | torokra |
allative | torhoz | torokhoz |
elative | torból | torokból |
delative | torról | torokról |
ablative | tortól | toroktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
toré | toroké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
toréi | torokéi |
Possessive forms of tor | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | torom | toraim |
2nd person sing. | torod | toraid |
3rd person sing. | tora | torai |
1st person plural | torunk | toraink |
2nd person plural | torotok | toraitok |
3rd person plural | toruk | toraik |
Further readingEdit
- (ceremonial meal): tor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
- (thorax): tor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
tor m (genitive singular toir, nominative plural toir)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- ó thor go tom (“from pillar to post”)
- tor caprais (“caper”)
- tor nimhe (“poison oak”)
Etymology 2Edit
Probably from Proto-Celtic (Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr), possibly borrowed from Old English torr (“a high rock, tower”), though the reverse is more likely; all ultimately from Latin turris (“tower”) and of non-Indo-European origin.
More at English tor and tor. Also compare Latin Taurini.
NounEdit
tor m (genitive singular toir, nominative plural toir)
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tor” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
tor m
- Alternative form of toradh
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
tor m (genitive singular toir, nominative plural toir)
- Alternative form of tarathar
DeclensionEdit
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tor | thor | dtor |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- "tor" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “tor” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin turris, turrim
NounEdit
tor f (plural tors)
Old FrenchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin turris, turrim, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tor f (oblique plural tors, nominative singular tor, nominative plural tors)
DescendantsEdit
- Middle French: tour
- Walloon: tour
- → Middle Low German: tōrn, tōren
- → Old Dutch: turn
- → Old English: torr, tūr, tor
- → Old Frisian: torn
- West Frisian: toer
- → Old High German: torn
- → Irish: túr
- → Scottish Gaelic: tùr
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tor m (oblique plural tors, nominative singular tors, nominative plural tor)
- bull (bovine)
Derived termsEdit
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Slavic *torъ, from *terti.
NounEdit
tor m inan
- track, course, path
- rail track
- lane (a part of a sports track)
- trajectory
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin thorium, from Old Scandinavian Thorr.
NounEdit
Chemical element | |
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Th | |
Previous: aktyn (Ac) | |
Next: protaktyn (Pa) |
tor m inan
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Named for Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist.
NounEdit
tor m (symbol Tr)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 4Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
NounEdit
tor
Further readingEdit
- tor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
RomanschEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
NounEdit
tor m (plural tors)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
tor n (plural toruri)
ScanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tor
- March (month)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *torъ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tȏr m (Cyrillic spelling то̑р)
DeclensionEdit
TurkishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *tōr- (“a kind of young animal”). Related to toy.
NounEdit
tor (definite accusative toru, plural torlar)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | tor | |
Definite accusative | toru | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | tor | torlar |
Definite accusative | toru | torları |
Dative | tora | torlara |
Locative | torda | torlarda |
Ablative | tordan | torlardan |
Genitive | torun | torların |
ReferencesEdit
- „tor“ in the dictionary of the Turkish language (TDK)
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) , “toraman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) , “torun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) , “torlak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
UzbekEdit
Other scripts | |
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Cyrillic | тор |
Roman | tor |
Perso-Arabic | |
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *d(i)ār.
AdjectiveEdit
tor (comparative torroq, superlative eng tor)
NounEdit
tor (plural torlar)
VenetianEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
VerbEdit
tor
- (transitive) to take
- (transitive) to get
VolapükEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tor (nominative plural tors)
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- torül (“bull calf, male calf”)
WelshEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- torra (second-person singular imperative)
- torriff (colloquial, third-person singular present/future)
- torrith (colloquial, third-person singular present/future)
- tyr (literary, third-person singular present/future)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
tor
- (literary) third-person singular present/future of torri
- (literary) second-person singular imperative of torri
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
tor | dor | nhor | thor |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |