FromProto-Hellenic*táuros, fromProto-Indo-European*táwros; cognates includeLatintaurus,Lithuaniantaũras,Old Englishstēor (Englishsteer), andAlbanianter. The Semitic words bear a resemblance:Aramaicתּוֹר(tor),Arabicثَوْر(ṯawr), cfProto-Semitic*ṯawr-; an etymological link is considered possible, either the PIE root was borrowed from the Semitic one, or the opposite, or both were borrowed from a third common source.
- IPA(key): /tâu̯.ros/ →/ˈta.βros/ →/ˈta.vros/
ταῦρος• (taûros) m (genitiveταύρου);second declension
- bull
- (Can weverify(+) this sense?)ox,chiefly as asacrificialanimal[1]
c.80–90CE,Gospel of Matthew,22:4;Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th edition,2012:οἱταῦροί μου καὶ τὰ σιτιστὰ τεθυμένα καὶ πάντα ἕτοιμα- hoitaûroí mou kaì tà sitistà tethuména kaì pánta hétoima
- myoxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready (NRSV)
- “ταῦρος”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ταῦρος”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ταῦρος”, inAutenrieth, Georg (1891),A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ταῦρος inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ταῦρος inCunliffe, Richard J. (1924),A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published1963
- “ταῦρος”, inSlater, William J. (1969),Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5022 inStrong, James (1979),Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010),Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN, page1456
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910),English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
