tonsura

See also: tonsurá

French

Pronunciation

Verb

tonsura

  1. third-person singular past historic of tonsurer

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tonsūra (a clipping, trimming), from tondeō (shear, clip, trim).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪onˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Hyphenation: ton‧su‧ra

Noun

tonsura f (uncountable)

  1. tonsure
    Synonym: coroa

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tonsura f (plural tonsure)

  1. tonsure

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tonsura

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

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Latin

Etymology

From tondeō +‎ -tūra with the regular change -dt--ss--s-.

Pronunciation

Noun

tōnsūra f (genitive tōnsūrae); first declension

  1. haircut
  2. pruning, clipping, trimming
  3. shearing

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tōnsūra tōnsūrae
genitive tōnsūrae tōnsūrārum
dative tōnsūrae tōnsūrīs
accusative tōnsūram tōnsūrās
ablative tōnsūrā tōnsūrīs
vocative tōnsūra tōnsūrae

Descendants

  • Catalan: tonsura
  • English: tonsure
  • French: tonsure
  • Friulian: tonsure
  • Galician: tonsura
  • Italian: tonsura
  • Occitan: tonsura
  • Polish: 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.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tōnsūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔnˈsu.ra/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

Noun

tonsura f

  1. tonsure

Declension

Further reading

  • tonsura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tonsura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪õnˈsu.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tōnsūra (a clipping, trimming), from tondeō (shear, clip, trim).

Noun

tonsura f (plural tonsuras)

  1. tonsure

Etymology 2

Verb

tonsura

  1. inflection of tonsurar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tonsura.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪on̪ˈsuː.ɾɐ]
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

Noun

tonsura (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜇ)

  1. tonsure
    Synonyms: panot, satsat, anit
  2. act of shaving the crown of the head into a tonsure
    Synonym: pag-anit

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