Lamborghini Urus

[FoMoJo]

Should've just called it Auroch.

[Soup DeVille]

Should've just called it Auroch.

Urus might be Italian too.

Still...

[Soup DeVille]

Lambo has historically used bovine/bull and bullfighting inspired names.  Their cars were either named after notable fighting bulls (like Murcielago) or other things related to bullfighting (like Estoc, a bullfighter's sword).  Urus is either a reference to a specific bull, or a more general reference to the ancient species of great bull.

I thought Espada was the sword; what was the Estoc?

[MX793]

I thought Espada was the sword; what was the Estoc?

Sorry, you're right.  Was there ever a car called Estoc?

[Soup DeVille]

Sorry, you're right.  Was there ever a car called Estoc?

I don't know; thought you did.

Looks like no; but it is also used as a name for a matador's sword. A different one from the espada de matodora toros, but still a bullfighting sword. M

Would make a decent Lambo name.

[Rupert]

Yes, but this is Urus. One S.

I would have known that one from the constellations Ursus Major and minor

Ha, so it is. Just filled that one in automatically, I guess.

[Soup DeVille]

Sorry, you're right.  Was there ever a car called Estoc?

There was a concept Lambo Estoque, a four door sedan.

[MX793]

There was a concept Lambo Estoque, a four door sedan.

Same word, different spelling (I think that's either the Spanish or Italian spelling; Estoc is French).  Maybe I'm not crazy after all...

[93JC]

Estoque = español

[Laconian]

The Lambo look doesn't seem nearly as special when it's not floating 1 inch off the ground. 

[Submariner]

The Lambo look doesn't seem nearly as special when it's not floating 1 inch off the ground. 

[Raza]

Sorry, you're right.  Was there ever a car called Estoc?

Estoque.  Estoque is a matador's sword.  Espada is also a sword.

The rituals and naming around bullfighting is so ritualistic, I'm not surprised there are two words for the same meaning.  I mean, as I understand it, the toreador and the matador are the same guy--the toreador becomes the matador as he closes in on the kill. 

[Tave]

El luchador torro con l'espada.

[Tave]

Or as we like to say it, "el bullo fightero con el sworderino"

[MX793]

Espada is the generic term for a sword in Spanish (from the Latin Spatha).  An Estoc (estoque in Spanish), is a specific type of sword.  It's a narrow-bladed thrusting sword originally design to pierce plate armor and mail.  They typically didn't have much of a cutting edge, an emphasis being on stabbing/thrusting to either pierce plate or find the narrow gaps between armor plates.  The design would evolve into the rapier.  Bullfighters use an estoc-like blade (shorter and stouter than a rapier).