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.ɾo̞]

tiro inan

1. shot

• "tiro" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “tiro” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

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

Attested since 1370; back-formation from tirar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾo̝/

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

• “tiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tyros” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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 𐌕𐌉𐌓𐌏 (tiro).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.roː/, [ˈt̪iːroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ro/, [ˈt̪iːro]
• 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)
• → 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, 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-Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian and Malay tinjau.

tiro

1. to observe
2. to inspect

• (Nordestino) 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 iDicionário Aulete.
• “tiro” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “tiro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tiro” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “tiro” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “tiro” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• 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/

tiro

1. (intransitive) to limp on one leg

• atiro (“a person who limps”)