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voro

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian вор (vor).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋoro/, [ˈʋo̞ro̞]
  • Rhymes: -oro
  • Syllabification(key): vo‧ro
  • Hyphenation(key): vo‧ro

Noun

voro (informal)

  1. thief
    Synonyms: varas, rosvo

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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Italian

Verb

voro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vorare

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gʷorō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (to devour). Cognates include Ancient Greek βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, I eat) and Sanskrit गिरति (giráti, to devour, eat), Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (jaraiti, to eat).

Pronunciation

Verb

vorō (present infinitive vorāre, perfect active vorāvī, supine vorātum); first conjugation

  1. to devour; to eat greedily
    Synonyms: edō, adedō, epulor, prandeō, vēscor, pāscor, cēnō, cōnsūmō, sumō
  2. to swallow up
  3. (figuratively) to destroy, overwhelm
  4. (figuratively) to read eagerly
  5. (vulgar) to fellate
    Synonym: fellō

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: vorer
  • Italian: vorare, vora
  • Esperanto: vori
  • Spanish: devorar

References

  • voro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • voro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • voro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

Noun

vóro m

  1. genitive singular of voras

Mapudungun

Noun

voro (Raguileo spelling)

  1. tooth

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Verb

voro

  1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of vara

Teanu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vanikoro *varə, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀu.

Pronunciation

Noun

voro

  1. hibiscus

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vanikoro *varə, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS.

Pronunciation

Noun

voro

  1. ray, stingray

References

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