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tao

name
/daʊ//ˈta.ʊ//taʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Yami Tao (“the Tao/Yami language”), from Yami tao (“human; person”), from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Compare Ibatan tawo, Tagalog tao, Ilocano tao.

  1. derived from *Cau✻
  2. derived from *tau✻
  3. derived from *tau✻
  4. derived from tao — “human; person”
  5. borrowed from Tao — “the Tao/Yami language”

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Tao

    Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature or way to live one's life.

    • The tao of Lao Tzu was a cosmic tao, inner and unwritten, a tao of Nature, while the tao of Confucius was moral and written.

  2. The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.

    • the tao of sex... the tao of the heart... the tao of integuments...

  3. Synonym of circuit

    Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. In Taoism, The Way, specifically the transcendental basis of nature and, and/or the ideal…

      In Taoism, The Way, specifically the transcendental basis of nature and, and/or the ideal way to live one's life.

    2. Alternative form of tao (“art or skill in harmony with essential nature”).

    3. A unisex given name from Mandarin.

    4. A surname from Mandarin.

      • When mathematicians face a question they cannot answer, they sometimes devise a less stringent question, in the hope that solving it will provide insights. This is the path that Tao took in 2004, in collaboration with Ben Green of Oxford.

    5. an Austronesian ethnic group native to Orchid Island (Lanyu) of Lanyu, Taitung County,…

      an Austronesian ethnic group native to Orchid Island (Lanyu) of Lanyu, Taitung County, Taiwan

    6. a historical region of Georgia (country)

    7. Initialism of thyroid-associated orbitopathy.

The neighborhood

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