taurus – Latin noun declension

Noun: taurus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	taurus
Plural	taurī

Genitive

Singular	taurī
Plural	taurōrum

Dative

Singular	taurō
Plural	taurīs

Accusative

Singular	taurum
Plural	taurōs

Ablative

Singular	taurō
Plural	taurīs

Vocative

Singular	taure
Plural	taurī

Sample Sentences

vacca sit an taurus, nōn est cognōscere prōmptum: (Whether it is a cow or a bull is not easy to know:

the front part appears, the hindquarters lie hidden.

(Although Ovid wryly observes that Taurus (constellation) depicts only the head, horns, and forequarters of this mythological animal, traditionally it was seen as a ‘‘taurus’’ and not a ‘‘vacca’’ charging in the sky.)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.717–718]
est quae boum mugitus imitetur, in Arelatensi agro taurus appellata, alioquin parva est. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 10.116]

Nouns inflected like taurus

priāpismus, scāpus, servus, cuneolus, sargus, saccus, scarus, scinus, scopus, illēgitimus, sorbus, sophus, somnus, Hispānus, soccus, sirpus, siclus, icterus, cunīculus, xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tauros, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros, which is probably from a non-IE substrate source. Since Latin does not show the metathesis of *-aur- > *-aru- found in terms such as parvum, it is possible that the term is a loanword and that the borrowing postdates the metathesis. However, Latin īnstaurō (< *steh₂u-ro-) perhaps also lacks the same metathesis, which could imply that the rule did have exceptions. This metathesis perhaps occurred in Celtic, where Proto-Indo-European *táwros produced Proto-Celtic *tarwos. See: Latin Nouns 'īnstaurō'.

Verbs referencing "taurus"

French Nouns taureau, Catalan Nouns toro, Spanish Nouns toro, Ancient Greek Nouns ταῦρος, English Nouns toreador, Asturian Nouns toru, Irish Nouns tarbh, Faroese Nouns tarvur, Icelandic Nouns tarfur, Old Norse Nouns tarfr, Galician Nouns touro, Old Portuguese Nouns touro, Portuguese Nouns touro, Old Norse Nouns þjórr, Faroese Nouns tjórur, Romanian Nouns taur, Danish Nouns tyr, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns tyr, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tyr, Dutch Nouns tauros, English Nouns taurylic acid, English Nouns taurolatry, Icelandic Nouns þjór.