tondeo
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *tondeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, from *temh₁- (“to cut”).
See also Latin temnō, tempus, templum, Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō), Welsh tam (“morsel”), Middle Irish tamnaim (“I cut off”), Proto-Slavic *tęti "to split, cleave", and the second element of Latin aestimō (“to appraise, value, estimate”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈton.de.oː/, [ˈt̪ɔn̪d̪eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈton.de.o/, [ˈt̪ɔn̪d̪eo]
Verb
[edit]tondeō (present infinitive tondēre, perfect active totondī, supine tōnsum); second conjugation
- to shave, shear, clip
- c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.58:
- Quīn etiam nē tōnsōrī collum committeret, tondēre fīliās suās docuit.
- Moreover, he would not entrust his throat to a barber, but had his daughters taught to shave.
- Quīn etiam nē tōnsōrī collum committeret, tondēre fīliās suās docuit.
- to crop, prune, trim
- to mow, reap
- to graze upon, browse, feed
- to plunder, deprive, strip
Conjugation
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: tundu, tundiri
- Romanian: tunde, tundere
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tōnsō
References
[edit]- “tondeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tondeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tondeo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- tondeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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