tauros

English

Noun

tauros (plural tauroses)

1. A crossbred cattle that is bred to bring back features of the aurochs (“Bos primigenius”), a member of the Tauros cattle breed.

See also

• aurochs
• Heck cattle, a different crossbreeding effort
• Taurus cattle, a different crossbreeding effort

 

Dutch

Etymology

Based on Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) and presumably (being an initiative of Stichting Taurus), Latin taurus (“bull”). The variant in -os was apparently chosen for the superficial resemblance to the Dutch word os (“ox”), as in oeros (“aurochs”); note also the stylized variant TaurOs. Doublet of stier.

Noun

tauros m (plural taurossen, diminutive taurosje n)

1. The tauros (breed of cattle).

   Synonym: taurosrund

Related terms

• oeros

Further reading

• oeros on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl
• Tauros Programme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Noun

taurōs

1. accusative plural of taurus

References

• tauros in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

tauros m

1. locative plural of taurs