different between taurus vs hyades

Latin

Alternative forms

• (archaic) tarvus, tarvos

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tau?.rus/, [?t?äu???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tau?.rus/, [?t???u?rus]

Noun

taurus m (genitive taur?); second declension

1. a bull, steer
2. an instrument of torture, in the shape of a bull
3. a small bird that sounds like the lowing of oxen, possibly the bittern
4. a kind of beetle
5. (anatomy) the perineum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Hypernyms

• b?s

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• vacca

References

• taurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• taurus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• taurus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• taurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• taurus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• taurus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• taurus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “toro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• sutura

Latvian

Noun

taurus m

1. accusative plural form of taurs