Tor

• IPA^(key): /tɔːɹ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: taur, tour (pour–poor merger)

Acronym of The Onion Routing.

• tor, TOR, T.O.R.

Tor

1. (computing) Abbreviation of The Onion Routing, an implementation of second-generation onion routing.

Clipping of Toronto.

• Tor., TOR, TOR.

Tor

1. Abbreviation of Toronto.

• ORT, OTR, ROT, RTO, TRO, ort, rot

• Thor (given name)

From Old Norse Þórr. Cognate with Faroese Tórur, Icelandic Þór, and Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish Tor.

Tor

1. (Norse mythology and paganism) Thor, a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
2. a male given name from Old Norse

• IPA^(key): /ˈto(ː)r/, [ˈt̪o̞(ː)r]
• Rhymes: -or
• Syllabification^(key): Tor
• Hyphenation^(key): Tor

Tor

1. (Norse mythology) alternative form of Thor (“Thor”)

• male given names: Teijo, Torsti, Tuukka, Tuure
• female given names: Tuovi

• Thor (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /toːɐ̯/
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: Thor

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From Middle High German and Old High German tor, from Proto-West Germanic *dor, from Proto-Germanic *durą.

Tor n (strong, genitive Tores or Tors, plural Tore)

1. gate, archway (passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry)
2. gate, door (large doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall)

   Dies ist ein Garagentor, nur ein Ochse parkt davor.

   This is a garage door, only an ox parks in front of it.

3. (figurative) gateway (point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another)

   Cham, das Tor zum Bayerwald - Cham, the gateway to the Bavarian Forest

4. (sports) goal, net (area into which the players attempt to put a ball)
5. (sports) goal (The act of scoring a goal in sports where doing so is the object)

• torarm

• → Hebrew: שַׁעַר (shá'ar) (semantic loan)

From Middle High German tōre (literally “hazy, foggy”), from the root of Dunst (“haze”).

Tor m (weak, genitive Toren, plural Toren, feminine Törin)

2. (dated or literary) fool (person with poor judgment or little intelligence)

   Synonym: Narr

   • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Prolog im Himmel”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎^[1]:

     Fuͤrwahr! er dient euch auf beſondre Weiſe. / Nicht irdiſch iſt des Thoren Trank noch Speiſe.

     Indeed! He serves you in a peculiar way. The drink and food of fools is not of this earth.

   • 2nd half of the 18th century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Prometheus (transl. "Prometheus")

     Ihr nähret kümmerlich / Von Opfersteuern / Und Gebetshauch / Eure Majestät, / Und darbtet, wären / Nicht Kinder und Bettler / Hoffnungsvolle Thoren.

     Your majesty / Is barely nourished / By sacrificial offerings / And prayerful exhalations, / And should starve / Were children and beggars not / Fools full of Hope.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" (German translation by Theodor Etzel)

     Sprach der Rabe: »Nie du Tor.«

     Said the Raven: "Never, you fool."

• Torheit f (“folly; foolishness”)
• töricht (“foolish”)

• “Tor” in Duden online
• “Tor” in Duden online
• “Tor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Tor on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• Thor, Tord (given name)

From Norwegian Nynorsk Þórr. The given name is also a spelling variant of Tord, from Þórðr.

Tor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor.
2. a male given name from Old Norse

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 22 416 males with the given name Tor (compared to 7 934 named Thor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

• Thor
• Tord (from Þórðr)

From Old Norse Þórr. The given name is also a spelling variant of Tord, from Þórðr. Cognate with Faroese Tórur, Icelandic Þór, and Danish and Swedish Tor.

• IPA^(key): /tuːr/

Tor m (definite Toren)

1. (Norse mythology and paganism) Thor, a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
2. a male given name from Old Norse

• Torekall
• torsbilete
• torshamar

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 22 416 males with the given name Tor (compared to 7 934 named Thor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

• Thor

Borrowed from English Thor, fromOld Norse Þórr.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔʁ, (Portugal) -ɔɾ

Tor m

1. (Norse mythology) Thor (thunder god)

• tório

From Old Norse Þórr, from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz. Cognate with Faroese Tórur, Icelandic Þór, and Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk Tor.

• IPA^(key): /tuːr/

Tor m (genitive Tors)

1. (Norse mythology and paganism) Thor, a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
2. a male given name from Old Norse, short for names beginning with the Old Norse element Tor-.

• Tor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• ort, rot, tro

Tor

1. a male given name