tiro

See also: Tiro, tīro, tirò, and tiró

English

Noun

tiro (plural tiros or tiroes)

1. Alternative spelling of tyro.
   • 1785, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: Or, A Review of Schools”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC, page 305:

     Schools, unleſs diſcipline vvhere doubly ſtrong, / Detain their adoleſcent charge too long. / The management of Tiro's of eighteen / Is difficult, their puniſhment obſcene.

   • 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “First Period: Lyric and Fantastic”, in A Study of Shakespeare, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 14:

     [T]he three chief periods or stages are so unmistakably indicated by the mere text itself, and so easily recognisable by the veriest tiro in the school of Shakespeare, […]

Anagrams

• Tori, Troi, riot, roti, tori, trio

Asturian

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Basque

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *der-der.

Proto-Germanic *teranąbor.?

Vulgar Latin *tīrāre

Spanish tirardeverb.

Spanish tirobor.

Basque tiro

Borrowed from Spanish tiro.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tiro inan

1. shot (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

Declension of tiro (inan V-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	tiro	tiroa	tiroak	tirook
ergative	tirok	tiroak	tiroek	tirook
dative	tirori	tiroari	tiroei	tirooi
genitive	tiroren	tiroaren	tiroen	tiroon
comitative	tirorekin	tiroarekin	tiroekin	tirookin
causative	tirorengatik	tiroarengatik	tiroengatik	tiroongatik
benefactive	tirorentzat	tiroarentzat	tiroentzat	tiroontzat
instrumental	tiroz	tiroaz	tiroez	tirootaz
inessive	tirotan	tiroan	tiroetan	tirootan
locative	tirotako	tiroko	tiroetako	tirootako
allative	tirotara	tirora	tiroetara	tirootara
terminative	tirotaraino	tiroraino	tiroetaraino	tirootaraino
directive	tirotarantz	tirorantz	tiroetarantz	tirootarantz
destinative	tirotarako	tirorako	tiroetarako	tirootarako
ablative	tirotatik	tirotik	tiroetatik	tirootatik
partitive	tirorik	—	—	—
prolative	tirotzat	—	—	—

Derived terms

• tiro egin (“to shoot”)
• tiro eman (“to shoot”)
• tiro-hots
• tirogai (“ammunition”)
• tirogile (“shooter”)
• tiroka (“shooting”)
• tirokatu (“to shoot”)
• tiroketa (“shooting”)
• tiroz (“shooting”)

Further reading

• “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

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Cebuano

Etymology

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”).

Verb

tiro

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

Synonyms

• tira

Esperanto

Alternative forms

• tirado

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *der-der.

Proto-Germanic *teranąbor.?

Vulgar Latin *tīrāre

Old French tirer

Middle French tirer

French tirerbor.

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Vulgar Latin *tīrāre

Italian tirarebor.

Esperanto tiri

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *-os

Archaic Latin -os

Latin -um

Italian -oder.

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Italic *-om

Archaic Latin -om

Latin -um

Spanish -oder.

Ancient Greek -οι (-oi)der.

Esperanto -o

Esperanto tiro

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiro/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iro
• Syllabification: ti‧ro

Noun

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]‎^[2], 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]‎^[3], 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]‎^[4], 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]‎^[5] (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]‎^[6] (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]‎^[7], 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.

Further reading

• “tiro”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested since 1370; back-formation from tirar.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Related terms

• tirada
• tirar

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “tiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tiro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, 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 Santamarina, Ernesto X. 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

Etymology 2

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From tirare (“to pull”).

Noun

tiro m (plural tiri)

1. pull, tug, draught/draft
2. throw, cast

   Synonym: lancio

3. (sports) shooting
4. (sports) shot, throw
5. shot, shooting, firing, range, reach (of weapons)

   Synonyms: colpo, sparo, portata

6. (military) fire

   Synonym: fuoco

7. trick, turn

   Synonym: scherzo

8. puff (of a cigarette)

   Synonym: boccata

9. sniff (of a drug)

   Synonym: sniffata

Derived terms

• alzare il tiro
• cavallo da tiro
• correggere il tiro
• in tiro
• tirare
• tirata
• tiratore
• tiratura
• tiremmolla
• tiretto
• tiro a segno
• tiro a volo
• tiro al piattello
• tiro con l'arco
• tiro mancino

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirare

Further reading

• “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

Anagrams

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

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Ostler 2007 suggests a borrowing from an unattested Etruscan term; García-Hernández 2025 proposes a far-fetched derivation from Latin triō, with the original meaning of "young ox", that later changed into its primary meaning, "novice".

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tīrō	tīrōnēs
genitive	tīrōnis	tīrōnum
dative	tīrōnī	tīrōnibus
accusative	tīrōnem	tīrōnēs
ablative	tīrōne	tīrōnibus
vocative	tīrō	tīrōnēs

Derived terms

• Tīrō
• tīrōcinium
  • tīrōcinō (Medieval Latin)
• tīrōnātus (Late Latin)
• tīrōneus
• tīrōnicum
• tīrunculus

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “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, 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^[8], 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

Makasar

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi *tiro (“to look out”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tindaw (“see in the distance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiro/, [ˈt̪ʰi.rɔ]
• Hyphenation: ti‧ro

Verb

tiro (Lontara spelling ᨈᨗᨑᨚ or 𑻦𑻳𑻭𑻶, semi-transitive anniro, passive nitiro)

1. (transitive) to look out for something
2. (transitive) to inspect; to observe something

   Mange anniro-niro ballaʼ

   To go and inspect a house (e.g., one that one wants to rent).

Derived terms

affixations

• anniro
• attiro
• attiro-tiro
• patiro

compounds

• attiro naiʼ
• attiro naung
• attiro sunrang
• cincing patiro
• patiro sunrang

Further reading

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page 819

Māori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tiro (compare with Samoan tilo), but further disputed:

• 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”)).

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiro/ [ˈtiɾɔ]

Verb

tiro (passive tirohia)

1. to observe, to view
2. to inspect

   Synonym: mātaki

Noun

tiro

1. viewing, view

Derived terms

• mātiro
• tirohanga
• tirorangi
• tirotiro
• titiro

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “tiro, titiro”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, 5th edition, Wellington, N.Z.: Marcus F. Marks, pages 496–7
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “tiro”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾu/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾu/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Homophone: Tiro
• Hyphenation: ti‧ro

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *der-der.

Proto-Germanic *teranąbor.?

Vulgar Latin *tīrāre

Old Galician-Portuguese tirar

Portuguese tirardeverb.

Portuguese tiro

Deverbal from tirar (“to remove”).

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• atirador
• atirar
• dar um tiro
• o tiro sair pela culatra
• tiro de misericórdia
• tiro de partida
• tiro direto
• tiro em primeira pessoa
• tiro indireto
• tiro livre
• tiro-de-guerra
• tiro-e-queda

Related terms

• tirar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Further reading

• “tiro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tiro”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “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, 2003–2026
• “tiro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “tiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *der-der.

Proto-Germanic *teranąbor.?

Vulgar Latin *tīrāre

Spanish tirardeverb.

Spanish tiro

Deverbal from tirar (“to throw”).

Noun

tiro m (plural tiros, diminutive tirito)

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. (slang) fix (dose of a drug)

   Alternative form: tirito

   Synonyms: falopa, chute

Derived terms

• a tiro
• a tiros largos
• al tiro
• ángulo de tiro
• caballo de tiro (“draft horse, draught horse, plow horse”)
• campo de tiro
• como un tiro
• de a tiro
• de al tiro
• de tiros largos
• dirección de tiro
• galería de tiro
• matar dos pájaros de un tiro
• ni a tiros
• no van por ahí los tiros
• polígono de tiro
• salir el tiro por la culata
• ser un tiro
• tiro al blanco
• tiro al plato
• tiro con arco
• tiro de esquina
• tiro de gracia
• tiro de pichón
• tiro libre
• tiroteo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tiro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirar

Further reading

• “tiro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “tiro”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.ɾo]

Noun

tiro

1. the vagina

References

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

Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tiro^?

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

Derived terms

• atiro (“person who limps”)