tiro

tiro

See also: Tiro, tīro, tirò, and tiró

English

Noun

tiro (plural tiros or tiroes)

1. Alternative spelling of tyro; a newly recruited soldier.

Anagrams

• Tori, Troi, riot, roti, tori, trio

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Asturian

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾu/

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tirar

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish tiro, from tirar (“shoot, throw”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear away, rip or snatch off, pull violently, tug”), from Proto-Indo-European *derə- (“to tear, tear apart”).

Verb

tiro

1. (dated) to shoot (fire a weapon)
2. (dated) to shoot a goal

Synonyms

• tira

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Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1370; back-formation from tirar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾo̝/

Noun

tiro m (plural tiros)

1. shot, throw, cast
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 506:

     Et, sen falla, Paris fezo esta uez moy bõ tiro et moy grã sua prol et de seus amigos, ca nũca seus ẽemigos rreçeberõ tã grã dãno, nẽ tomarõ tã grã perda cõmo esta.

     And, no doubt, Paris did this time a great shot and very beneficial for him and his friends, because never had their enemies received such a large damage nor had they took such a great loss as this one

   • 1470, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 362:

     tódolos outros diseron juntamente que esteueram no arroydo e que uiran matar ao irmao de Gonçaluo Roíz e seu cunhado e outros pyós e que uiram tyrar a Fernán de Sam Payo, e dyserom que ele fezera muytas fyrydas e matara ó dito Gonçaluo Roz, e que ouuera muitos dynheyros dos ditos fynados, e mais diseron que se gauaba que de XX tyros que tyrara que todos empregara, saluo dous

     all the rest said altogether that they were at the riot and that they saw how Gonzalvo Rois' brother, and his brother-in-law, and other pawns, were killed; and that they saw Fernán de Sampaio shooting; and they said that he caused many wounds and that he killed the aforementioned Gonzalvo Rois, and that he took many moneys from the dead; and they added that he was boasting that of twenty shots he had shoot, all but two were put to good use

2. gunshot
3. shooting
4. flue of a chimney
5. ascending current of air of a chimney which evacuates the smoke caused by combustion

Related terms

• tirada
• tirar

References

• “tiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tyros” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ro/
• Rhymes: -iro
• Hyphenation: tì‧ro

Etymology 1

From tirare (“to pull”).

Noun

tiro m (plural tiri)

1. pull, tug, draught/draft
2. throw, cast

   Synonym: lancio

3. (sports) shooting
4. (sports) shot, throw

   Synonyms: colpo, sparo, portata

5. shot, shooting, firing, range, reach (of weapons)

   Synonym: fuoco

6. (military) fire

   Synonym: scherzo

7. trick, turn

   Synonym: boccata

8. puff (of a cigarette)

   Synonym: sniffata

9. sniff (of a drug)

Related terms

• cavallo da tiro
• in tiro
• tirare
• tirata
• tiratore
• tiratura
• tiremmolla
• tiretto
• tiro al piattello
• tiro a segno
• tiro a volo
• tiro con l'arco
• tiro mancino

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirare

Further reading

• tiro in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• tiro in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• tiro in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• tiro in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

Anagrams

• irto, orti, otri, rito, roti, tori, trio

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Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan 𐌕𐌉𐌓𐌏 (tiro).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.roː/, [ˈt̪iːroː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ro/, [ˈt̪iːro]
• Homophone: Tīrō

Noun

tīrō m (genitive tīrōnis); third declension

1. (Roman military) recruit
2. apprentice (one that is young in age)
3. beginner, novice, tyro, neophyte, freshman, greenhorn

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tīrō	tīrōnēs
Genitive	tīrōnis	tīrōnum
Dative	tīrōnī	tīrōnibus
Accusative	tīrōnem	tīrōnēs
Ablative	tīrōne	tīrōnibus
Vocative	tīrō	tīrōnēs

Derived terms

• Tīrō
• tīrōcinium
  • tīrōcinō (Mediaeval Latin)
• tīrōnātus (Late Latin)
• tīrōneus
• tīrōnicum
• tīrunculus

Descendants

• → Catalan: tiró (learned)

References

• “tiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tiro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tiro 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)
• tiro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be an inexperienced speaker: rudem, tironem ac rudem (opp. exercitatum) esse in dicendo
    
  • recruits: tirones
    
• “tiro”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tiro”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

1. Ostler, Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin (p. 39)

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian and Malay tinjau.

Verb

tiro

1. to observe
2. to inspect

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾu/

• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾu/
• Homophone: Tiro
• Hyphenation: ti‧ro

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tirar (“to remove”).

Noun

tiro m (plural tiros)

1. the act of shooting

   Synonym: disparo

2. a fired shot

   Holonyms: fogo, rajada

3. shooting firearms as a sport

   Synonym: tiro ao alvo

4. (sports, figurative) a very strong kick, throw or hit
5. (South Brazil) the act of throwing bolas or a lasso towards an animal
6. (soccer) free kick (kick in which a player may kick the ball without interference)

Derived terms

• atirador
• atirar
• dar um tiro
• o tiro sair pela culatra
• tiro-de-guerra
• tiro de misericórdia
• tiro de partida
• tiro direto
• tiro em primeira pessoa
• tiro-e-queda
• tiro indireto
• tiro livre

 

Related terms

• tirar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Further reading

• “tiro” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “tiro” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “tiro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tiro” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “tiro” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “tiro” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾo/ [ˈt̪i.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: ti‧ro

Etymology 1

From tirar (“to throw”).

Noun

tiro m (plural tiros)

1. throw (the act of throwing something)

   Synonym: lanzamiento

2. shot; gunshot (the result of launching a projectile or bullet)

   Synonyms: disparo, descarga

   Hyponyms: balazo, pistoletazo

3. range (the distance from a person or sensor to an object)

   Synonym: alcance

   a tiro ― in range

4. (sports) shooting (the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon)

   tiro con arco ― archery

5. (sports) shot (the act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal)

   Synonyms: disparo, lanzamiento, plano

6. team (a set of draught animals)
7. intake of air in a space
8. inseam (the seam of a trouser up the inside of the leg)
9. fix (dose of a drug)

Derived terms

• al tiro
• a tiro
• caballo de tiro (“draft horse, draught horse, plow horse”)
• campo de tiro
• de a tiro
• matar dos pájaros de un tiro
• ni a tiros
• no van por ahí los tiros
• salir el tiro por la culata
• tiro al blanco
• tiro al plato
• tiro con arco
• tiro de esquina
• tiro de gracia
• tiro libre
• tiroteo

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Further reading

• “tiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.ɾo]

Noun

tiro

1. the vagina

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tī.ɾō/

Verb

tiro

1. (intransitive) to limp on one leg

Derived terms

• atiro (“a person who limps”)