ταῦροι (tauroi)

ταῦροι is an Ancient Greek form of ταῦρος, meaning “bull”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Ταῦρος, “Tauros — a bull, occurs”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or adjective.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.74: πολλαί οἱ πὰρ ποσσὶ βόες, πολλοὶ δέ τε ταῦροι,

New Testament, Matthew 22.4: πάλιν ἀπέστειλεν ἄλλους δούλους λέγων Εἴπατε τοῖς κεκλημένοις Ἰδοὺ τὸ ἄριστόν μου ἡτοίμακα, οἱ ταῦροί μου καὶ τὰ σιτιστὰ τεθυμένα, καὶ πάντα ἕτοιμα· δεῦτε εἰς τοὺς γάμους.

Strabo, Geography 7.4.2: … ρας λιμένες τρεῖς· εἶθʼ ἡ παλαιὰ Χερρόνησος κατεσκαμμένη καὶ μετʼ αὐτὴν λιμὴν στενόστομος, καθʼ ὃν μάλιστα οἱ Ταῦροι, Σκυθικὸν ἔθνος, τὰ λῃστήρια συνίσταντο τοῖς καταφεύγουσιν ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἐπιχειροῦντες· καλεῖται δὲ συμβόλων λιμή …

All forms of ταῦρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.