toro
Portuguese, noun
toro is spelled T-O-R-O (4 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,080th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Toro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tree ring” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of torar. With an accent, toró is a different word: “heavy rain”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segmento de tronco de árvore”.
What does toro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetree ring
- 2
masculinetorus (three dimensional shape)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of torar
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialmasculineheavy rain
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. segmento de tronco de árvore 2. espaço topológico homeomorfo ao produto de dois círculos (vide figura acima) 3. moldura circular da base da coluna 4. cacete
noun: 1. cidade da península do Sinai
noun: 1. chuva repentina e forte
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of toro
- toros plural
- torós plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to toro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is toro in Portuguese?
toro appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).