tor

See also: Tor and Appendix:Variations of "tor"

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Translingual

Symbol

tor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Togbo-Vara Banda.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Togbo-Vara Banda terms

English

WOTD – 19 February 2013, 19 February 2014, 19 February 2015

English Wikipedia has an article on:

tor

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /toɹ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /toː/

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /tɔːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: torr; tore (horse–hoarse merger); tour (UK, pour–poor merger); taw (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tor, torr-, from Old English torr, tor (“a high rock, lofty hill, tower”), possibly from Proto-Celtic, compare Old Welsh *tor (“hill”); ultimately from Latin turris (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis, “tower”), of non-Indo-European origin.

Cognate with Cornish tor, Scottish Gaelic tòrr, Welsh twr, Irish tor, French tor, and Romansch tor/tur/tuor; the first four are Celtic (from Latin turris), the last two directly from Latin turris (from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) and τύρσις (túrsis)). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. Doublet of tourelle, tower, and turret.

Noun

tor (plural tors)

1. (geology) A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill, created by the erosion and weathering of rock.
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 183:

     Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, […]

   • 1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Second Report of Dr. Watson”, in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], published 1902, →OCLC, page 207:

     The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.

2. (South-West England) A hill with such rock formation.
   • 2008, Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night‎, Signet Eclipse, →ISBN, page 242:

     She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors—and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.

Translations

outcrop of rock

Bulgarian: чукар (bg) m (čukar) Finnish: toori Hungarian: szikla (hu) sg Spanish: risco (es) m

hill — see hill

Etymology 2

Adjective

tor (comparative more tor, superlative most tor)

1. Alternative form of tore ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

See also

• TOR
• Tor
• torr
• Torr

Anagrams

• ORT, OTR, ROT, RTO, TRO, ort, rot

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tor, from Middle Dutch torre. Compare the probably cognate Germanic etymology of English dor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔr/

• Audio:

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Noun

tor (plural torre)

1. beetle

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• tornu

Etymology

From Latin tornō. Compare Romanian turna, torn.

Verb

tor (third-person singular tore, participle turate)

1. to return, come back
2. to pour
3. to respond
4. to rethink

Related terms

• turari
• turat
• arãstor

See also

• vers

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		тор
Arabic		تور

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *tor. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tor, “net”), Southern Altai тор (tor, “net”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

tor (definite accusative toru, plural torlar)

1. net

Declension

Declension of tor

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	torlar
definite accusative	toru	torları
dative	tora	torlara
locative	torda	torlarda
ablative	tordan	torlardan
definite genitive	torun	torların

Possessive forms of tor

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	torum	torlarım
sənin (“your”)	torun	torların
onun (“his/her/its”)	toru	torları
bizim (“our”)	torumuz	torlarımız
sizin (“your”)	torunuz	torlarınız
onların (“their”)	toru or torları	torları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	torumu	torlarımı
sənin (“your”)	torunu	torlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	torunu	torlarını
bizim (“our”)	torumuzu	torlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	torunuzu	torlarınızı
onların (“their”)	torunu or torlarını	torlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	toruma	torlarıma
sənin (“your”)	toruna	torlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	toruna	torlarına
bizim (“our”)	torumuza	torlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	torunuza	torlarınıza
onların (“their”)	toruna or torlarına	torlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	torumda	torlarımda
sənin (“your”)	torunda	torlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	torunda	torlarında
bizim (“our”)	torumuzda	torlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	torunuzda	torlarınızda
onların (“their”)	torunda or torlarında	torlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	torumdan	torlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	torundan	torlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	torundan	torlarından
bizim (“our”)	torumuzdan	torlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	torunuzdan	torlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	torundan or torlarından	torlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	torumun	torlarımın
sənin (“your”)	torunun	torlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	torunun	torlarının
bizim (“our”)	torumuzun	torlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	torunuzun	torlarınızın
onların (“their”)	torunun or torlarının	torlarının

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton torr, teur, from Old Breton tar, from Proto-Celtic *torr-V- (“belly”), of uncertain origin; according to Matasovic, of non-Indo-European origin, but according to MacBain, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to turn, rub”), cognate with Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“guts, intestines”), Ancient Greek τάμισος (támisos, “rennet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːr/

Noun

tor m (plural torioù, collective toroù)

1. (anatomy) belly, stomach, abdomen

Synonyms

• kof

Noun

tor

1. hard mutation of dor

Mutation

Mutation of tor

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	tor	dor	zor	unchanged
plural	torioù	dorioù	zorioù	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009), “torrV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 385
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “tor”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page tàrr

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German tor, from Old High German tor, from Proto-Germanic *durą (“large door; gate”). Cognate with German Tor, English door.

Noun

tor n (Luserna)

1. gate, gateway
2. large doorway

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [tˢoːˀɐ̯]

Verb

tor

1. present of to

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

tor

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From Middle Dutch torre, of uncertain origin, possibly an imitative Middle Dutch base turren (“buzz”). Compare cognate West Frisian tuorre, toarre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

Noun

tor f (plural torren, diminutive torretje n)

1. beetle (insect of the order Coleoptera)

   Synonym: kever

Derived terms

• boktor
• dronken als een tor
• kniptor
• meeltor
• schildpadtor
• watertor

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tor

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “tor”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Anagrams

• rot

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtor]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: tor
• Rhymes: -or

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tor (plural torok)

1. (literary, archaic or folksy) meal, repast, feast (ceremonial meal held after weddings, funerals, or other special occasions)

   Synonym: lakoma

   halotti tor ― funeral feast

   disznótor ― meal on pig-killing day (literally, “pig meal”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	torok
accusative	tort	torokat
dative	tornak	toroknak
instrumental	torral	torokkal
causal-final	torért	torokért
translative	torrá	torokká
terminative	torig	torokig
essive-formal	torként	torokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	torban	torokban
superessive	toron	torokon
adessive	tornál	toroknál
illative	torba	torokba
sublative	torra	torokra
allative	torhoz	torokhoz
elative	torból	torokból
delative	torról	torokról
ablative	tortól	toroktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	toré	toroké
non-attributive possessive – plural	toréi	torokéi

Possessive forms of tor

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	torom	toraim
2nd person sing.	torod	toraid
3rd person sing.	tora	torai
1st person plural	torunk	toraink
2nd person plural	torotok	toraitok
3rd person plural	toruk	toraik

Derived terms

• disznótor

Etymology 2

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “breastplate, chest”), created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

Noun

tor (plural torok)

1. (zoology) thorax (of an arthropod)

   Coordinate terms: fej, potroh

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	tor	torok
accusative	tort	torokat
dative	tornak	toroknak
instrumental	torral	torokkal
causal-final	torért	torokért
translative	torrá	torokká
terminative	torig	torokig
essive-formal	torként	torokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	torban	torokban
superessive	toron	torokon
adessive	tornál	toroknál
illative	torba	torokba
sublative	torra	torokra
allative	torhoz	torokhoz
elative	torból	torokból
delative	torról	torokról
ablative	tortól	toroktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	toré	toroké
non-attributive possessive – plural	toréi	torokéi

Possessive forms of tor

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	torom	toraim
2nd person sing.	torod	toraid
3rd person sing.	tora	torai
1st person plural	torunk	toraink
2nd person plural	torotok	toraitok
3rd person plural	toruk	toraik

Further reading

• (ceremonial meal): tor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (thorax): tor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.