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voro
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "voro"
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
voro (informal)
Declension
Synonyms
Further reading
- “voro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023
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Italian
Verb
voro
Anagrams
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɔ.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɔː.ro]
Verb
vorō (present infinitive vorāre, perfect active vorāvī, supine vorātum); first conjugation
- to devour; to eat greedily
- to swallow up
- (figuratively) to destroy, overwhelm
- (figuratively) to read eagerly
- (vulgar) to fellate
- Synonym: fellō
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- vorācitās
- vorāciter
- vorāginōsus
Descendants
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
Mapudungun
Noun
voro (Raguileo spelling)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Verb
voro
- (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
Etymology 2
From Proto-Vanikoro *varə, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS.
Pronunciation
Noun
voro
References
- François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry voro.
- François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry voro.
- Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.
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