tondere
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]With a change in conjugation, from Latin tondēre (“to shave, shear”), from Proto-Italic *tondeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tond-éye-ti, causative derivation of the root *tend- (“to split, cut off”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tóndere (first-person singular present tóndo, first-person singular past historic tondétti or (traditional) tondètti, past participle tondùto or tónso, auxiliary avére) (transitive, archaic or literary)
- to shave
- Synonym: tosare
- 14th c., “Capitolo XV [Chapter 15]”, in Fioretti di San Francesco[1], published 1843, page 41:
- salutata divotamente la Vergine Maria dinanzi al suo altare, dov'ella era stata tonduta e velata, sì la menarono vedendo il luogo, infino a tanto ch'e' fu ora di desinare
- having devoutly hailed the Virgin Mary in front of her altar, where she'd been shaven and veiled, they brought her around to take a look at the place, until it was time for dinner
- 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata terza, Novella II [Third Day, Second Novel]”, in Decamerone [Decameron][2], Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 76:
- con un paio di forficette, lequali portate havea, gli tondè alquanto dall'una delle parti i capelli
- with a small pair of scissors, which he had brought, he cut quite a bit of his hair on one side
- (by extension) to prune; to mow
- Synonym: potare
- 1940, Riccardo Bacchelli, Mondo vecchio sempre nuovo [Ever-New Old World], Mursia, published 1969:
- le falci […] vibravan le punte nello spessore dell'erba, tondevano raso terra, leggiere, sicure ed avide
- the scythes vibrated their tips in the thickness of the grass, they mowed along the ground, light, secure, and greedy
- (by extension) to graze
- Synonym: brucare
- 1793, Lorenzo Mascheroni, L'invito di Dafni Orobiano a Lesbia Cidonia:
- […] l'erba
Tondea la mite agnella- the meek lamb grazed the grass
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of tóndere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | tóndere | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | tondèndo | |||
present participle | tondènte | past participle | tondùto, tónso | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | tóndo | tóndi | tónde | tondiàmo | tondéte | tóndono |
imperfect | tondévo | tondévi | tondéva | tondevàmo | tondevàte | tondévano |
past historic | tondétti, tondètti1 | tondésti | tondétte, tondètte1 | tondémmo | tondéste | tondéttero, tondèttero1 |
future | tonderò | tonderài | tonderà | tonderémo | tonderéte | tonderànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | tonderèi | tonderésti | tonderèbbe, tonderébbe | tonderémmo | tonderéste | tonderèbbero, tonderébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | tónda | tónda | tónda | tondiàmo | tondiàte | tóndano |
imperfect | tondéssi | tondéssi | tondésse | tondéssimo | tondéste | tondéssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
tóndi | tónda | tondiàmo | tondéte | tóndano | ||
negative imperative | non tóndere | non tónda | non tondiàmo | non tondéte | non tóndano |
1Traditional.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- tondere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]tondēre
- inflection of tondeō:
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