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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori taro. Doublet of kalo, from Hawaiian.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæ???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??o?/, /?t??o?/
• Rhymes: -æ???
• Homophone: tarot

Noun

taro (usually uncountable, plural taros)

1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

   Synonyms: colocasia, elephant ears

2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. Food from a taro plant.

   Synonym: dasheen

Hyponyms

• (similar plants): giant taro, Alocasia and species, especially Alocasia macrorrhizos; swamp taro, Cyrtosperma merkusii; Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Derived terms

• Chinese taro, chinese taro (Alocasia cucullata)
• giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma merkusii)
• giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
• metallic taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
• swamp taro (Cyrtosperma merkusii)
• taro flying frog (Rhacophorus taronensis)
• taro-patch fiddle

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: taro

Translations

See also

• eddo

Anagrams

• -ator, RATO, Rato, Roat, Rota, rato, rota

French

Etymology

From Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tal?s

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.?o/

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. taro (plant)

Synonyms

• colocase

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?o?/

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. sandbank

   Synonyms: banco, barra, restinga, brica, sirte

2. peak, mountain

   Synonyms: cotarro, outeiro

References

• “taro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “taro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “taro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hiri Motu

Noun

taro

1. taro

Italian

Verb

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarare

Anagrams

• arto, atro, rota

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (t?r?).

Noun

taro ?

1. star

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[1], pages 13-36

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tal?s (compare Javanese talas).

Noun

taro

1. taro
2. bread

Descendants

• ? English: taro
  • Tok Pisin: taro
• ? French: taro
• ? German: Taro

Maranao

Noun

taro

1. wax

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.r?/

Noun

taro f

1. vocative singular of tara

Portuguese

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. taro (Colocasia esculenta; edible corm of the taro plant)

Spanish

Verb

taro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tarar.

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tal?s

Noun

taro

1. taro

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English taro.

Noun

taro

1. The taro plant.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?tar?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ta?r?/, /?tar?/

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, turn; pierce”).

Verb

taro (first-person singular present trawaf)

1. to strike, hit

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From English taro, from Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tal?s.

Noun

taro m (uncountable)

1. taro

Mutation

Further reading

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “taro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yami

Noun

taro

1. wax
2. candle

English

Etymology

From Old French infinité, from Latin infinitas (“unlimitedness”), from negative prefix in- (“not”), + finis (“end”), + noun of state suffix -tas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?f?n?ti/
• Rhymes: -?n?ti

Noun

infinity (countable and uncountable, plural infinities)

1. (uncountable) Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
2. (countable, mathematics) A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
3. (countable, topology, mathematical analysis) An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
4. (uncountable) A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
5. (countable, uncountable) The symbol ?.

Usage notes

In mathematics there are several different infinities; see transfinite.

Synonyms

• (absence of a beginning, end or limits to size): See also Thesaurus:infinity

Antonyms

• finity

Related terms

• finish
• finite
• infinite
• infinitesimal
• infinitieth

Translations

See also

• eternal
• eternity
• transfinite