tonsor

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

tonsor (plural tonsors)

1. (obsolete) A barber.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     “So, tonsor,” says Jones, “I find you have more trades than one; how came you not to inform me of this last night?”

   • Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel , Chapter 27.

     He was speedily shown the way to such an emporium of intelligence, and soon found he was likely to hear all he desired to know, and much more, while his head was subjected to the art of a nimble tonsor.

Related terms

• tonsorial
• tonsure

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tonsor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• rotons

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Latin

Etymology

From tondeō (“shear, shave”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈton.sor/, [ˈt̪õːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈton.sor/, [ˈt̪ɔnsor]

Noun

tōnsor m (genitive tōnsōris); third declension

1. a hair cutter, barber
2. one who prunes or clips plants

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tōnsor	tōnsōrēs
Genitive	tōnsōris	tōnsōrum
Dative	tōnsōrī	tōnsōribus
Accusative	tōnsōrem	tōnsōrēs
Ablative	tōnsōre	tōnsōribus
Vocative	tōnsor	tōnsōrēs

Related terms

• tondeō
• tōnsilis
• tōnsiō
• tōnsōrius
• tōnstrīcula

• tōnstrīna
• tōnstrīnum
• tōnstrīx
• tōnsūra
• tōnsus

References

• “tonsor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tonsor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tonsor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tonsor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Spanish

Noun

tonsor m (plural tonsores)

1. tonsor