Etymograph

English

torero

Torero comes from Spanish torero ‘torero, bullfighter, toreador’, from toro ‘bull’, and ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ṯawr-.

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*ṯawr-‘bull, ox’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*táwros‘wild bull, aurochs’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tauros‘bull’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtaurus‘a bull, steer’
  5. Spanishc. 1500–presenttoro‘bull’
  6. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presenttorero‘torero, bullfighter, toreador’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*ṯawr-‘bull, ox’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*táwros‘wild bull, aurochs’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tauros‘bull’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtaurus‘a bull, steer’
  5. Spanishc. 1500–presenttoro‘bull’
  6. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presenttorero‘torero, bullfighter, toreador’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Latin taurus ‘a bull, steer’

taurine, 5 more

Today it means

noun A bullfighter

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Semitic *ṯawr- / torero

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