taur

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taur

/ˈtɔː/ UK
/ˈtoɹ/ US

Sounds like Tor, tour (pour–poor merger), tar (some pronunciations)

Where it comes from

Clipping of centaur, corresponding to Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of steer.

noun taurs

slang A fictional creature, resembling a centaur, with the lower body of some four-or-more-legged animal and the upper body either of an anthropomorphic version of that same animal or (less commonly) of a human or another humanoid creature. Near-synonyms: merfur or merperson (piscine lower body), naga or lamia (serpentine lower body)
Similar: merfur or merperson[piscine]] lower body>, naga or lamia[serpentine]] lower body>

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@misc{taur_2026,
  title = {taur},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/taur},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}