tonsure

See also: tonsuré

English

Medieval Roman Catholic monk with tonsure.

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French tonsure, from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɒn.ʃə(ɹ)/

Verb

tonsure (third-person singular simple present tonsur, present participle ing, simple past and past participle tonsured)

1. (Christianity, Buddhism) To shave the crown of the head as a sign of humility and religious vocation.

Translations

shave the crown of the head

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 削髮／削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 剃度 (zh) (tìdù)

• Finnish: tehdä tonsuuri
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: krúnuraka
• Spanish: tonsurar (es)

Noun

tonsure (plural tonsures)

1. A ritual shaving of this kind.
2. The bald patch resulting from being tonsured.

Translations

ritual shaving of this kind

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 削髮／削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 剃度 (zh) (tìdù)

• Finnish: tonsuuri (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: krúnurakstur m
• Japanese: 剃度 (ja) (ていど, teido)
• Spanish: tonsura (es) f

bald patch resulting from being tonsured

• Catalan: tonsura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 削髮／削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 剃度 (zh) (tìdù)

• Esperanto: tonsuro
• Finnish: tonsuuri (fi)
• French: tonsure (fr) f
• German: Tonsur (de) f
• Hungarian: tonzúra
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: krúna f
• Middle English: coroune
• Polish: tonsura (pl) f
• Russian: тонзу́ра (ru) f (tonzúra)
• Spanish: tonsura (es) f
• Swedish: tonsur (sv) c
• Tagalog: panot (tl)

Anagrams

• nutrose, tenours

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French

Etymology

From Old French tonsure, borrowed from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.syʁ/

Noun

tonsure f (plural tonsures)

1. tonsure

Related terms

• tondre

Verb

tonsure

1. first-person singular present indicative of tonsurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of tonsurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tonsurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tonsurer
5. second-person singular imperative of tonsurer

Further reading

• “tonsure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

tonsure f

1. plural of tonsura

Anagrams

• resunto, strenuo

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) tōnsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of tōnsūrus

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tonsūra.

Noun

tonsure oblique singular, f (oblique plural tonsures, nominative singular tonsure, nominative plural tonsures)

1. tonsure (hair)

Descendants

• → English: tonsure
• French: tonsure

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tonsure, supplement)
• tonsure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Spanish

Verb

tonsure

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tonsurar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tonsurar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tonsurar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tonsurar.