tauros
English
Noun
tauros (plural tauroses)
- A crossbred cattle that is bred to bring back features of the aurochs (“Bos primigenius”), a member of the Tauros cattle breed.
See also
- aurochs
- Heck cattle, a different crossbreeding effort
- Taurus cattle, a different crossbreeding effort
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Based on Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) and presumably (being an initiative of Stichting Taurus), Latin taurus (“bull”). The variant in -os was apparently chosen for the superficial resemblance to the Dutch word os (“ox”), as in oeros (“aurochs”); note also the stylized variant TaurOs. Doublet of stier.
Noun
tauros m (plural taurossen, diminutive taurosje n)
Related terms
Further reading
- oeros on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
- Tauros Programme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Noun
taurōs
- accusative plural of taurus
References
- "tauros", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Latvian
Noun
tauros m
- locative plural of taurs