toreador

From Spanish toreador, from torear (“to fight bulls”), from toro (“bull”), from Latin taurus.

toreador (plural toreadors or toreadores)

1. (bullfighting) A bullfighter, especially one on horseback.
   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 21:

     Such figures formed part of some ivory model of the Bull Ring, and are meant to suggest the toreadors who loom so large in the art and the traditions of Knossos. We can imagine the associations which such young toreadors would suggest, hung in the air by fine gold chains above the back of an ivory bull, when we look at a scene painted on one of the frescoes.

• torero

• toreador pants

• matador

Borrowed from Spanish toreador.

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• Hyphenation: to‧re‧a‧dor

toreador m (plural toreadors)

1. (bullfighting) torero, bullfighter, toreador

• stierenvechter
• torero

Borrowed from Spanish toreador.

• IPA^(key): /to.re.ˈa.dɔr/
• Rhymes: -dɔr
• Hyphenation: to‧re‧a‧dor

toreador (plural toreador-toreador)

1. torero, bullfighter, toreador

• “toreador” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• torreador

Borrowed from Spanish toreador.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.rɛˈa.dɔr/

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• Rhymes: -adɔr
• Syllabification: to‧re‧a‧dor

toreador m pers

1. toreador

• toreador in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• toreador in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French toréador.

toreador m (plural toreadori)

1. bullfighter

Borrowed from Spanish toreador.

• IPA^(key): /torěaːdoːr/
• Hyphenation: to‧re‧a‧dor

torèādōr m anim (Cyrillic spelling торѐа̄до̄р)

1. (bullfighting) toreador

From torear +‎ -dor.

• IPA^(key): /toɾeaˈdoɾ/ [t̪o.ɾe.aˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: to‧re‧a‧dor

toreador m (plural toreadores)

1. (bullfighting) toreador

   Synonym: torero

• → Dutch: toreador
• → English: toreador
• → French: toréador
• → Polish: toreador, torreador
• → Serbo-Croatian: torèādōr

• “toreador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024