aurochs

aurochs

English

Augsburg depiction of an aurochs.

Alternative forms

• auroch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aurochs, an early variant of Auerochse, from Middle High German ūrochse (“aurochs”), from Old High German ūrohso (“aurochs”), a compound consisting of ūro (“aurochs”) (from Proto-Germanic *ūraz, *ūrô (“aurochs”)) + ohso (“ox”). Akin to Old English ūr (“aurochs”), Old Norse úrr (“aurochs”), Middle Low German ūrosse (“aurochs”), Old English oxa (“ox”). More at ox.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊɹɒks/, /ˈɔːɹɒks/

Noun

aurochs (plural aurochs or aurochses or aurochsen)[1]

1. An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.
2. (zoology) The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europæus).

Synonyms

• ure
• urus

Related terms

• ure, urus (perhaps related)

Translations

Bos primigenius

Armenian: վայրի ցուլ (vayri cʿul), ցլավայրի (hy) (cʿlavayri), տուր (hy) (tur) Catalan: ur (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 原牛 (zh) (yuánniú) Czech: pratur (cs) m Dutch: oeros (nl) m Esperanto: uro (eo) Estonian: tarvas Faroese: frumneyt n Finnish: alkuhärkä (fi), ? tarvas (fi) French: aurochs (fr) m German: Auerochse (de), Ur (de) m Greek: ούρος m (oúros), βους ο πρωτογενής m (vous o protogenís) Ancient: βόνασος m (bónasos) Hungarian: őstulok (hu) Irish: áracs m Italian: uro m Latin: ūrus m Latvian: taurs m Norwegian: Bokmål: urokse m Old English: ūr (ang) m Persian: ارکس‎ (oroks) Polish: tur (pl) m anim Portuguese: uro (pt) m, uroque m, auroque (pt) m Romanian: bour (ro) m Russian: тур (ru) m (tur) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: tur m Spanish: uro (es) m Sudovian: tauras m Swedish: uroxe (sv) c Tagalog: uro Turkish: yaban öküzü Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎜𐎎 (rủm) Vietnamese: bò rừng châu Âu, bò Tur Welsh: cynfual m

European bison — see European bison

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Georgian: (please verify) ჯიხვი (ka) (ǯixvi)

References

• aurochs in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Notes:

1. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal (1995, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 200

Noun

aurochs

1. plural of auroch

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French

Alternative forms

• auroch (post-1990 spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɔk/, /o.ʁɔk/

Noun

aurochs m (plural aurochs)

1. aurochs

   Synonyms: ure, urus

Further reading

• “aurochs”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.