Taurus
pronunciation
How to pronounce Taurus in British English:
UK [ˈtɔ:rəs]
How to pronounce Taurus in American English:
US [ˈtɔrəs]
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- Noun:
- Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)
- (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
- a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion; between Aries and Gemini
- the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
Word Origin
- Taurus (n.)
- zodiac constellation, late Old English, from Latin taurus "bull, bullock, steer," also the name of the constellation, from PIE *tau-ro- "bull" (cognates: Greek tauros, Old Church Slavonic turu "bull, steer;" Lithuanian tauras "aurochs;" Old Prussian tauris "bison"); from PIE *tauro- "bull," from root *(s)taeu- "stout, standing, strong" (cognates: Sanskrit sthura- "thick, compact," Avestan staora- "big cattle," Middle Persian stor "horse, draft animal," Gothic stiur "young bull," Old English steor, see steer (n.)); extended form of root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Klein proposes a Semitic origin (compare Aramaic tora "ox, bull, steer," Hebrew shor, Arabic thor, Ethiopian sor). Meaning "person born under the sign of the bull" is recorded from 1901. At midnight revels when the gossips met, He was the theme of their eternal chat: This ask'd what form great Jove would next devise, And when his godship would again Taurise? [William Somerville, "The Wife," 1727] The Taurid meteors (peaking Nov. 20) so called from 1878.
Example
- 1. Taurus , however , is straight-forward and down-to-earth in sexual matters .
- 2. Is leo compatible with taurus ?
- 3. Taurus is the proprietor by nature and not romantic enough for libra .
- 4. We can conclude that leo taurus compatibility is based more on understanding and giving way to each other .
- 5. A no-nonsense approach is favoured and too much verbalising , or complex fantasising is not really taurus 's thing .