tondeo

From Proto-Italic *tondeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to split, cut off”).^[1]

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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔn.de.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɔn̪.d̪e.o]

tondeō (present infinitive tondēre, perfect active totondī, supine tōnsum); second conjugation

1. to shave, shear, clip

   Synonyms: abrādō, rādō

   • 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.

2. to crop, prune, trim
3. to mow, reap
4. to graze upon, browse, feed
5. to plunder, deprive, strip

   Synonyms: prīvō, dēturbō, nūdō, dēstringō, stringō, fraudō, adimō

• “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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• tondeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.