tiro

tiro (plural tiros or tiroes)

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

• Tori, Troi, riot, roti, tori, trio

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Borrowed from Spanish tiro.

• IPA^(key): /tiɾo/ [t̪i.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -iɾo, -o
• Hyphenation: ti‧ro

tiro inan

1. shot (clarification of this definition is needed)

• “tiro”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “tiro”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈti.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈti.ɾo]

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

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”).

tiro

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

• tira

• tirado

From tiri (“to pull”, transitive verb) +‎ -o (nominal suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiro/
• Rhymes: -iro
• Hyphenation: ti‧ro

tiro (accusative singular tiron, plural tiroj, accusative plural tirojn)

1. pull, pulling (the act of pulling or the result of that action)
   • 1910, Eliza Orzeszkowa, “III. [3.]”, in Zamenhof, Ludoviko Lazaro, transl., Marta [Martha]‎^[1], 2. edition (fiction), Parizo: Esperantista Centra Librejo, published 1924, archived from the original on 1 July 2022:

     […] ĉe ĉiu detalo, ĉe ĉiu tiro de la krajono vi batalis kontraŭ la tekniko de la arto […]…

     [original: […] przy każdym szcze­góle, przy każdym pociągnięciu ołówka łamałaś się pani z techniką sztuki […]…]

     […] with every detail, with every stroke of the pencil, you struggled with the technique of art […]…

   • 1910, Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof, “E [E]”, in Rogister, Camille, editor, Proverbaro Esperanta [Esperanto Proverbs]‎^[2], 2. edition, La Laguna: Stafeto, published 1974, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 July 2022:

     Eltrinki per unu tiro [tira gluto].

     To drink in one gulp [sip].

   • 1938, Sándor Szathmári, “Unua Parto: Gulivero inter la Hinoj [First Part: Gulliver among the Hines]”, in Vojaĝo al Kazohinio [Journey to Kazohini]‎^[3], Parizo: Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, published 1998:

     […] mi preskaŭ sufokiĝis. […]. De mia kolo la vestaĵon mi ŝiris per unu tiro. […].

     […] I almost suffocated. […]. I tore the clothes from my neck with one pull. […].

   • 1989, Claude Piron, “Du sublingvoj [Two sublanguages]”, in La bona lingvo [The good language]‎^[4] (non-fiction), Vieno—Budapeŝto: Pro Esperanto/HEA, published 1997:

     Esperanto travivas streĉiĝojn kaŭzatajn de tri disaj tiroj.

     Esperanto is experiencing tensions caused by three divergent pulls.

   • 1995, Hjalmar Söderberg, “La sakramento de la komunio (1897) [The sacrament of the communion (1897)]”, in Johansson, Sten, transl., La Kiso kaj dek tri aliaj noveloj [The Kiss and thirteen other short stories]‎^[5] (fiction), Skövde: Al-fab-et-o, published 1995:

     […] kelkaj tiroj de la cigaroj, kaj la diskuto denove ekhavis vervon.

     […] a few puffs from the cigars, and the discussion regained its vigor.

   • 1999, Anna Löwenstein, William Auld, “La nazaretanoj [The Nazarenes]”, in La ŝtona urbo [The stone city]‎^[6], Antwerpen: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, published 2000:

     Mi lavis miajn harojn kaj zorge kombis ilin per longaj, malhastaj tiroj de la kombilo.

     I washed my hair and carefully combed it with long, leisurely strokes of the comb.

• “tiro”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997

Attested since 1370; back-formation from tirar.

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

tiro m (plural tiros)

1. shot, throw, cast
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, 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, editor, 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

• tirada
• tirar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tyros”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

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

From tirare (“to pull”).

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)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirare

• 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

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

From Etruscan per Ostler 2007.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtiː.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪iː.ro]
• Homophone: Tīrō

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

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: tiró (learned)
• → English: tyro (learned)
• → Italian: tirone (learned)

• “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^[7], 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

From Proto-Polynesian *tiro (compare with Samoan tilo); but disputed further.

• According to Wolff (2010): from Proto-Oceanic *tidro (compare with Fijian tidro “to peer at something”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tindaw (compare with Malay tinjau “to inspect, to keep an eye on”).^[1]

• According to Osmond and Pawley (2016): from Proto-Oceanic *tirop (compare with Fijian tidro as above) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tindap^[2]

tiro (passive tirohia)

1. to observe, to view
2. to inspect

   Synonym: mātaki

tiro

1. viewing, view

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tiro, titiro”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 496-7
• “tiro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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

Deverbal from tirar (“to remove”).

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)

• tirar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

• “tiro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “tiro”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “tiro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tiro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “tiro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “tiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

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

Deverbal from tirar (“to throw”).

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)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

• “tiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.ɾo]

tiro

1. the vagina

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

• IPA^(key): /tī.ɾō/
• Hyphenation: ti‧ro

tiro^?

1. (intransitive) to limp (walk lamely) on one leg

• atiro (“person who limps”)