Etymology

tauromachy

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Ancient Greek ταῦρος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromταῦρος“bull”
  2. English todaytauromachy

From Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle”).

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