# tore
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tô, IPA: /tɔː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) enPR: tôr, IPA: /toɹ/
* (Scotland) enPR: tōr, IPA: /toːɹ/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: tōr, IPA: /to(ː)ɹ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /toə/, /toː/
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
* Homophones: tor (horse–hoarse merger); taw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); tour (pour–poor merger)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English tor, tore, toor, from Old Norse tor- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”, prefix), from Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *dus- (“bad, ill, difficult”). Cognate with Old High German zur- (“mis-”, prefix), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌶- (tuz-, “hard, difficult”, prefix), Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, ill, difficult”, prefix). More at dys-.

#### Alternative forms

* tor

#### Adjective

tore (comparative more tore, superlative most tore)
* (dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
* (dialectal or obsolete) Strong, sturdy; great, massive.
* (dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.

##### Derived terms

* torely

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tore
* simple past of tear (“rip, rend, speed”).
* (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of tear (“rip, rend, speed”)
** 1661, George Whitehead, Edward Burroughs, The Son of Perdition Revealed […] ‎, London, page 39:[…] that a Spirit came into him that did make him quake and tremble ſo exceedingly that he thought it would have tore him, &c […]
** 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 71:Upon my honor, Sir, you have tore every bit of ſkin quite off the back of both my hands with your forceps, cried my uncle Toby […]
** 1999 May 11, Rick Bass, Where the Sea Used to Be, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 393:"Would've tore your head clean off," Dudley was bellowing. "Would've snapped it off your neck like wet toilet paper […]

##### Usage notes

* The past tense of the other verb tear, meaning "produce liquid from the eyes", is teared.

### Etymology 3

See torus.

#### Noun

tore (plural tores)
* (architecture) Alternative form of torus
* (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
* The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.

### Etymology 4

Probably from the root of tear; compare Welsh word for a break or cut.

#### Noun

tore (uncountable)
* The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
** 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:the more Tore you have, the less Quantity of Hay will do

### See also

* tore up
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “tore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

### Anagrams

* rote

## Estonian
### Adjective

tore (genitive toreda, partitive toredat, comparative toredam, superlative kõige toredam)
* fine, splendid

#### Declension
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin torus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: tord, tords, tores, tors, tort, torts (general), taure, taures (one pronunciation)

### Noun

tore m (plural tores)
* (geometry) torus

#### Derived terms

* torique

### Further reading

* “tore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* tore on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$

### Anagrams

* ôter, rote, roté

## Galician
### Verb

tore
* inflection of torar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Kangean
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate to Maori turou (“come; welcome”) and Madurese atore (“please”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: to‧re

### Noun

tore
* welcome

## Latin
### Noun

tore
* vocative singular of torus

## Maori
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tore (“striked, streaked” – compare to Rarotongan tore, Tahitian tore),

### Verb

tore (passive torea)
* to cut, to split
* (of light) to pass through a narrow aperture

### Noun

tore
* strip, shred (of cloth etc)
    Synonym: hae
* stripe
    Synonym: ropi
* narrow light beam passing through a slit

### Adjective

tore
* of keen or sharp eyesight

### Derived terms

* katore
* toretore

### Related terms

* tuhi

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 480-1
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tore.2”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *tole (compare with Samoan toletole and Tongan tole) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teli

### Noun

tore
* vagina, vulva

### Derived terms

* kotore

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 480-1
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tore.2”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 158-9

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tore”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 513
* “tore” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Ngarrindjeri
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

tore
* mouth

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse þora.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toːˈrə/

#### Verb

tore (present tense tør, past tense torde or turte, past participle tort or turt)
* to dare
    Synonym: våge
* (literary) to allow, to need
    Synonyms: få, behøve, trenge
* (literary) to should, to could
    Synonyms: kunne, burde

##### Alternative forms

* tørre.

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse *þórr. See Norwegian Bokmål torden

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toːˈrə/

#### Noun

tore m or f (definite singular toren or tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)
* (dialectal) a thunder (noun)
    Synonym: torden

#### Verb

tore (present tense torer, simple past toret, past participle toret)
* (dialectal, metereology) to thunder (verb)
    Synonym: tordne

### Etymology 3

From Norwegian Bokmål tor. From Old Norse tóra. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk tore.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toːˈrə/

#### Verb

tore
* (dialectal) to burn slightly
    Synonym: brenne svakt

### References

* “tore” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “tore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²toː.rə/
* Homophone: tåre

#### Verb

tore (present tense torer or tør, past tense torde, supine tort)
* Alternative form of tora (“to dare”)

### Etymology 2

Connected to Old Norse Þórr (“Tor, Thor”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²tuːrə/

#### Noun

tore f (definite singular tora, indefinite plural torer, definite plural torene)
* a thunder

##### Alternative forms

* tora (non-standard since 2012)

##### Derived terms

* torebrak
* torebye
* toredønn
* toreflo
* torelo
* toreskrell
* toreslag
* toresmell
* torestein
* torevatn
* torevêr

#### Verb

tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tore/tor)
* (impersonal, metereology) to thunder
* (intransitive, figurative) to rage
    Synonyms: buldre, skjenne, smelle

##### Alternative forms

* tora (a-infinitive)
* torna, torne (with n-infix and either infinitive)

#### See also

* lyn n (“lightning”)
* (noun): torden (Bokmål)
* (verb): tordne (Bokmål)

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse tóra (“to live life meazelly”).

#### Alternative forms

* torast (a-infinitive)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²tuːrə/

#### Verb

tore (present tense torar, past tense tora, past participle tora, passive infinitive torast, present participle torande, imperative tore/tor)
* (intransitive, about fire) to burn weakly

### References

* “tore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* erot, oret, orte, oter, rote, ròte, tore, Tore, troe

## Portuguese
### Verb

tore
* inflection of torar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish torre. Displaced moog.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtoɾe/ [ˈt̪oː.ɾɛ]
* Rhymes: -oɾe
* Syllabification: to‧re

### Noun

tore (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜒ)
* tower
    Synonyms: banayaban, (obsolete) moog
* (chess) rook

#### Coordinate terms

Chess pieces in Tagalog · mga piyesa sa ahedres (layout · text) :
| hari | reyna | tore | obispo/alpil | kabayo | peon |

### Further reading

* “tore”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* reto

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈto.ɾe]

### Verb

tore
* (stative) to be dried

#### References

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