voro

Borrowed from Russian вор (vor).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋoro/, [ˈʋo̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation^(key): vo‧ro

voro (colloquial)

1. thief

• varas

• “voro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

• Orvo

voro

1. first-person singular present indicative of vorare

• ovro, ovrò, rovo

From Proto-Italic *gʷorō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”). Cognates include Ancient Greek βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “I eat”) and Sanskrit गिरति (giráti, “to devour, eat”), Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (jaraⁱti, “to eat”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯o.roː/, [ˈu̯ɔroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.ro/, [ˈvɔːro]

vorō (present infinitive vorāre, perfect active vorāvī, supine vorātum); first conjugation

1. to devour; to eat greedily

   Synonyms: edō, adedō, prandeō, vēscor, pāscor, cēnō, cōnsūmō, sumō

2. to swallow up
3. (figuratively) to destroy, overwhelm
4. (figuratively) to read eagerly
5. (vulgar) to fellate

   Synonym: fellō

• → Esperanto: vori
• French: vorer
• Italian: vorare, ⇒ vora

• “voro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “voro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• voro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋorɔ]

vóro m

1. genitive singular of voras

voro (Raguileo spelling)

1. tooth

voro

1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of vara

From Proto-Vanikoro *varə, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀu.

• IPA^(key): /foro/

voro

1. hibiscus

From Proto-Vanikoro *varə, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS.

• IPA^(key): /foro/

voro

1. ray, stingray

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry voro.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry voro.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.