tonsura

See also: tonsurá

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tonsuras, tonsurât

Verb

tonsura

1. third-person singular past historic of tonsurer

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

Noun

tonsura f (uncountable)

1. tonsure

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”). See tosare.

Noun

tonsura f (plural tonsure)

1. tonsure

Verb

tonsura

1. third-person singular present indicative of tonsurare
2. second-person singular imperative of tonsurare

Related terms

• tondere
• tosare

Anagrams

• Saturno, saturno, snaturo, snaturò, sturano

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Latin

Etymology

From tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tonˈsuː.ra/, [t̪õːˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tonˈsu.ra/, [t̪onˈsuːrä]

Noun

tōnsūra f (genitive tōnsūrae); first declension

1. a clipping, trimming, cropping, shearing, pruning

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tōnsūra	tōnsūrae
Genitive	tōnsūrae	tōnsūrārum
Dative	tōnsūrae	tōnsūrīs
Accusative	tōnsūram	tōnsūrās
Ablative	tōnsūrā	tōnsūrīs
Vocative	tōnsūra	tōnsūrae

Related terms

• tondeō
• tōnsilis
• tōnsiō
• tōnsor
• tōnsōrius

• tōnstrīcula
• tōnstrīna
• tōnstrīnum
• tōnstrix
• tōnsus

Descendants

• Catalan: tonsura
• English: tonsure
• French: tonsure
• Friulian: tonsure
• Galician: tonsura

• Italian: tonsura
• Romanian: tunsură
• Russian: тонзура (tonzura)
• Spanish: tonsura

References

• “tonsura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tonsura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tonsura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tonsura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Polish

Noun

tonsura f

1. tonsure

Declension

Declension of tonsura

	singular	plural
nominative	tonsura	tonsury
genitive	tonsury	tonsur
dative	tonsurze	tonsurom
accusative	tonsurę	tonsury
instrumental	tonsurą	tonsurami
locative	tonsurze	tonsurach
vocative	tonsuro	tonsury

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Spanish

Verb

tonsura

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of tonsurar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tonsurar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tonsurar.