The corpus record — Latin

Taurus2

bull

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Where it lives

Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 37.52/10k
Eclogarum Liber 4 · 14.61/10k
Conon 1 · 13.62/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Eclogues 6 · 13.22/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 20 · 11.8/10k
Oedipus 6 · 10.11/10k
Phaedra 7 · 9.84/10k
Remedia Amoris 5 · 9.54/10k
Argonautica 35 · 9.42/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Medea 5 · 8.83/10k

Densest 12 of 124 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. taurus — de Vaan

taurus 'bull' [m. ο] (P1.+) Derivatives: taura 'barren cow' (Varro+), taureus derived from a bulP (Lucr.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. taurus, p. 621]

2. taurus — Lewis & Short

taurus, i, m. = Gr. tau=ros; Sanscr. sthūrus; Goth. stiur; Germ. Stier,

I a bull, bullock, ox, steer.

I Lit., Varr. R. R. 2, 5; Col. 6, 20; Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 176; Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 66; Cic. Div. 2, 16, 36 sq.; Caes. B. G. 6, 28; Verg. G. 3, 212; Hor. S. 1, 3, 110 al. —

II Transf.

A A brazen bull made by Perillus, that Phalaris used as an instrument of torture, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33, § 73; Ov. A. A. 1, 653; id. Tr. 3, 11, 41 sq.; Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 89.—

B The Bull, a constellation in the zodiac, Hyg. Astr. 2, 21; 3, 20; Verg. G. 1, 218; Plin. 2, 41, 41, § 110.—

C A small bird that imitates the lowing of oxen, perh. the bittern, Plin. 10, 42, 57, § 116.—

D A kind of beetle: tauri vocantur scaribaei terrestres ricino similes, Plin. 30, 5, 12, § 39. —

E A root of a tree, acc. to Quint. 8, 2, 13. —

F The surface of the body between the anus and the privy parts, Gr. o)/rros, Fest. s. v. solitaurilia, p. 293 Müll.; cf. Diom. p. 444 P.

3. Taurus — Lewis & Short

Taurus, i, m.,

I a high mountainrange in the south-eastern part of Asia Minor, now Allah Dagh, Bulghar Dagh, etc., Mel. 1, 15, 2; Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 97; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 8; Cic. Fam. 15, 1, 3; 15, 2, 2 al.: Tauri Pylae, a defile between Cappadocia and Cilicia, id. Att. 5, 20, 2.

4. Taurus — Lewis & Short

Taurus, i, m.,

I a Roman proper name: M. Taurus, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1.

5. taurus — Walde–Hofmann

taurus, -; m. „Stier; Sternbild; ein Vogel; Skarabaeus* (Plin. nat. 10, 116. 30, 39); ,Baumstumpf* (Quint. inst. 8, 2, 13); ,Teil eines . Opfertiers* (Fest. p. 360) (seit Cic., rom.), taura, -ae f. ,unfruchtbare Zwitterkuh* (seit Varro, Fest. p. 352 = gr. xaópa), taureus „vom Stier“ (seit Catull), Zaurinus, -a, um „vom Stier“ (seit Plt., -a f. „Art Schuh aus Stierleder* [vgl. Edict. Diocl. 9 taurinae muliebres … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. taurus, p. 1558]

In the wild

tauri Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.547
tauri Seneca, Hercules 1
tauros Vergil, Eclogues 1
taurus Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.205
taurumque Ovid, Amores 3.5.25
taúrus Plautus, Pseudolus 1.2

6 of 775 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. taurus (scan p. 621; entry #1768).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. taurus (scan p. 701; entry #11656).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. taurus (scan pp. 1558-1560; entry #2937). Root candidates: *tau-, *tauro-, *teur-.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.